Monthly Ajaxian Roundup for November, 2007: Defining JavaScript 2, making security less Caja, and mobile
Written by on December 2nd, 2007 in Ajax News.
The heat is really on with JavaScript 2. It feels like yesterday that ourselves and Lambda were the only people interested in trickling out news on updates to ECMAScript. Now everyone has a hat in the ring shouting about it. Just a week ago we saw Brendan speak on the topic. Before that we had the question on the future of ECMAScript, Doug Crockford talking about the security angle, John Resig actually showing code instead of talk, and finally a little Caja in the form of an open source library to help security.
Here’s the detailed roundup:
Toolkits
Dojo
- Dojo 1.0 Released: The Granddaddy is Born
- Dojo: The cigarette after the ….
- Dissecting Dijit: Dojo Widgets
Prototype / Script.aculo.us
- Prototype 1.6, Script.aculo.us 1.8 and The Book.
- New UI library for Prototype in the works
- Scripteka.com - The Prototype extensions repository
- How well do you know Prototype?
- Pseudo-custom events in Prototype 1.6
- Protoscripty Same Game
- Thomas Fuchs uses Script.aculo.us 2.0 on his own site
- Scal: Calendar widget for Prototype
Mootools
- MooMonth - MooTools-based Calendar
- MooTools 1.2 beta 1
- Mocha UI - MooTools Canvas UI class
- MooTools Calendar Component
jQuery
YUI
GWT
- Chronoscope: GWT based charting library
- Rolling your own GWT Hyperlink class
- GWT Conference: December 3-6, 2007
Ext
Browsers
- WebKit 3 shows up with the new Safari
- 3D Canvas in Opera
- Mozilla hunting for memory
- Opera Mini 4 Released
- Firefox 3 beta: Fonts and Colors
- Firefox Canvas 3D Extension Available
- Safari CSS Reference
JavaScript
- Brendan Eich: JavaScript 2 evolution and the myth busting Tracing JIT
- Brendan Eich’s Open Letter to Chris Wilson
- The future of ECMAScript 3 is 4?
- Making JavaScript Safe With No Script
- JavaScript 2: News and Opinion
- John Resig plays with ECMAScript 4
- Capability JavaScript: JavaScript isn’t Caja
- Choosing a JavaScript framework
- URI Comparison Functions
- New Ajax for Old Iron
- Isomorphic SmartClient: Now Open Source
- Real Men Don’t Do JavaScript Do They?
- Unobtrusive JavaScript - Rules to work by
- JavaScript Method Overloading
- JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events
- JavaScript Beautify
- Squirrel IoC: Dependency Injection for JavaScript
- How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API
- CacheFile.net: Central JavaScript Library URLs
- New Release of Gaia Ajax Widgets
- Bug: Object Killing in IE7
Articles / Editorial / Utilities
- Comet: Is it’s time coming?
- RESTTest HTTP Tester
- How To Minimize Your Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads
- No more “Click to Activate”, no more SWFObject / UFO?
- TIBCO GI Performance Profiler
- Ajax, Browsers, Running Out of Time
- Yahoo! Search Contextual Precaching
- The 2007 Ajax Turkeys
- CrossFrame: a Safe Communication Mechanism Across Documents and Across Domains
Offline
- Wikipedia Offline with GearsMonkey
- Zoho Writer Offline with Editing
- Kevin Hoyt on the AIR Experience
General Web / HTTP / Standards
- High Performance Web Sites and YSlow
- HTTP Streaming and Internet Explorer
- Cross Domain XHR W3C proposal
- Avoid unnecessary Ajax traffic with session state
- New CSS JavaScript Library
Showcases
- MarkMail: Search and Analyze Email Traffic
- Gmail adds Greasemonkey Helper API
- Eye-Fi: Do you want Web 2.0 with your 2GB?
- Songza: Would you like a habituatable pie-menus with your social music?
- Placeshout: New Rails based Geo-cool site
- NASA Relaunches 5.0 with Prototype and Script.aculo.us
- Nintendo relaunches with Dojo, Mootools, and more
- Mindmeister: Take your mind map offline
- PopBox! - A Javascript Image Magnifier
Components / APIs
- Songbird v0.3: API for media mashups
- TinyMCE 3 First Look
- OpenSocial: Social JavaScript APIs
- Making the OpenSocial API feel more at home
- Slideshare Gallery Viewer, no API needed
- sosymbol: Mashup your icons
- Getitnext.com: An example of how libraries can co-exist
- Get rid of the IE iframe “click”
- HTML5 Media Support: video and audio tags and scriptability
- DebugBar 5: New CSS debugging for IE
- AxsJAX: Access-Enabling AJAX
- Silverlight Minesweeper
- Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix
- Facebook Beacon JavaScript
- Grizzly attacks: DWR’s Reverse Ajax to support The Comet Implementation
- New Grid Filter Plugin for Ext
- Mad Cool Date Library
- ColdFusion 8 Grid Magic
- Genfavicon: A favicon generator
- Widgets and Gadgets
- HeatColor - Firing up elements based on values
Goofy
Mobile
We launched a new mobile oriented site called devphone. Keep up with mobile news. The big news this month was the launch of Android, and the WebKit browser that you get to not only call out too, but embed in your applications.
- How does Google Maps Mobile work?
- Why Microsoft loves or hates Android
- Android Dex reverse engineering
- Kindle the mobile browser
- Interview with Joe Hewitt on the new devphone.com
- Another WebKit win with Android
- How JS & Ajax work in Opera Mini 4
Source: Ajaxian
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