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 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 timed perfectly to slightly under [...]
Heuristic : Ease of Error Recovery Many a times, after sending an e-mail, Users realize that they’ve done a terrible mistake and would want to “UNDO” the same.
Thanks to the dynamic client sided validation, one need to type the entire e-mail addresses of recipients and instead choose from a suggested list. This feature also [...]
Keeping the Web in Web 2.0 An HCI approach to designing web applications
Analysis of application state and its representation in browser historyand bookmarks. One of the disadvantages of AJAX is that browser history and bookmarks of classic web applications are broken if not implemented specifically Only some elements of interaction state are recorded in browser history. Only some elements [...]