Archive for the ‘AJAX, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XHTML’ Category

Adobe Flex 3 components

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Some of the interesting components are DividedBox TileList PrintDataGrid Effects Formatters & Validators Chart Controls Advanced Data Grid See all Flex 3 components. Trivia : AIR projects are for Desktop applications while Flex projects are for Web applications

Top AJAX Frameworks of 2007

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Prototype, JQuery and ExtJS are the top 3 AJAX frameworks used in 2007 based on a survey conducted by Ajaxian. Interestingly 42.5% of the respondents also used one of these frameworks, toolkits and libraries to design proof-of-concepts and prototypes. 46.5% of the developers used them in conjunction with PHP followed ...

Web 2.0 IDEs

Monday, October 29th, 2007

The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code. See Overview | Download Aptana IDE also supports Adobe AIR.

Adobe’s “RIA Leadership Summit 2007″ in Bangalore

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Adobe is targeting users with “occassionally (dis?)connected devices” like Laptops, Mobile Phones, IPTVs et all with Flex, AIR , Flash Lite etc., to enable Rich Internet Applications. Update : Over 150 people landed-up at Adobe’s “RIA Leadership Summit” help at Oberoi, last evening. Shantanu’s preso was ...

Front-End Performance Optimization through CSS sprites

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Among many techniques used to reduced the No. of requests to the servers, CSS sprites is a cool one. This simple CSS technique involves clubbing multiple images as one and uses ” background-position:” to define the image display. Here’s a cool CSS Sprite generation tool