Ajax Girl

Happy New Year. I was tempted to post a top ten list of the best aggregators of top ten lists, but decided against it

I hope that 2008 finds everyone well, and the Web in a better place. In 2007, the Web development community has jumped a lot, but at the same time, hasn’t changed at all.

We have seen the browsers really kick into gear. Firefox 3 beta is looking surprisingly fast and good. WebKit has taken the browser world by storm from the stand point of so many companies hacking away on it. From Adobe AIR, to Android, to Nokia, and beyond. Opera gives us a good experience on the Wii.

And IE…. they have a name for the next browser, and showed a smiley face with the promise of good CSS.

The major libraries are all pretty solid, and the core features are all matched. It is hard to go wrong with your choice now if you keep to the main track. We had the promise of more tools, and Aptana has stepped up a little as well as others. In 2008, we should be seeing many more projects coming out of stealth mode. This is so needed as it is still too hard to develop web applications. For tonight, it is time to hope. Tomorrow, we try to make it happen.

Cheers to all. Here is the roundup:

Browser

• IE 8 now doesn’t trip on Acid
• IE.Next has a new name…. IE8
• IE 7: One year later, and no infomation on 8
• Silverlight Tech Talk from TAE
• Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency
• window.createPopup leaks 80KB in IE 7
• Opera sues Microsoft of standards compliance
• Mozilla Weave: More servers for your browser
• JScript 5.7: Fixing IE6
• WebKit gets native getElementsByClassName
• Fluid puts hat in the “Site Specific Browser” ring

JavaScript

• Evolutionary Programming and Gradual Typing in ECMAScript 4
• Really Simple History 0.6 Released!
• Nintendo ES Operating System on JavaScript
• Upcoming Changes to the JavaScript Language
• Use the Google Chart API to create charts for your web applications
• Making sure you get new instances in JavaScript
• Ajax Cross Domain Script
• Sucking in Dojo, YUI, or jQuery into any page
• Bindows 4: Clocks, Faces, and more.
• State of ECMAScript Implementations
• Dean Edwards releases base2 and base2.DOM beta
• Organise Your Code With base2.Packages
• JavaScript Benchmarks
• Er.js: Erlang-in-JavaScript
• Untold JavaScript Secrets
• 3D-style animation in JavaScript
• Working aroung the instanceof memory leak
• DOMAssistant 2.5 released - Making a run at the the major JavaScript libraries
• WireIt: Yahoo! Pipes Canvas Wiring API

Prototype

• NASA Relaunches 5.0 with Prototype and Script.aculo.us
• Packing Down Prototype

Ext

• ChartMaker: Ext 2 UI on top of the Google Chart API
• Ext 2.0 Final Released
• Ext.CFC: Easing Integration with Ext and Adobe ColdFusion

YUI

• YUI 2.4.0 Released

jQuery

• jQuery Glider Component
• Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery
• Plotting in jQuery

Microsoft

• Silverlight 1.^H^H2.0: Controls are here
• Microsoft Labs Volta: .NET Web Toolkit

DWR

• DWR State of the Union
• DWR joins the Dojo Foundation - Joe Walker joins SitePen

Editorial

• Flash “Ajax” Update: Flex LiveCycle Data Services Goes Open-Source
• The problem with innerHTML
• Ajax Survey III
• 2007 Ajax Tools Usage Survey Results
• Adobe AMF and Flash Media Server
• Taking a peak at HTML 5
• OpenSocial Container Checker: IGCheck
• AppJet: Develop, Preview, Deploy all on the Web
• Wii Opera SDK
• Comparing the evolution of Java and JavaScript
• 3D Panorama in JavaScript
• Alex Russell is trying to save us
• Ajatus: Distributed CMS using CouchDB
• Facebook improves Ajax support with FBJS LocalProxy
• Interview with Ben and Stephan on Parleys.com
• Interviewed on GWT, Gears, Java, and JavaScript

Security

• Cross Site Scripting Joy: XSS in detail
• Filtering JavaScript From HTML Content with AntiSammy

Performance

• High Performance Ajax Applications
• YSlow 0.9 Release: Grokking XHR and more

Showcase

• Remember, the Milk has spilled on your Gmail
• WriteMaps.com: A tool for website planning
• Applebox: iTunes in Serverless Ajax

GWT

• JSTM: Java Shared Transacted Memory for GWT
• GWT Can Do Spinners?
• GWT Conference: Voices That Matter Summary
• GWT Voices: Cross browser sound API
• GWT and Volta

Comet

• Django and Comet
• Comet. Not as painful as you think!
• The Future of Comet: Part 1, Comet Today

CSS

• CSS Text Wrap: Squeeze that text around any line
• Canvas Bevel Script
• Infamous IE hasLayout is toast
• W3C CSS Grid Positioning

iPhone

• iPhone window.onorientationchange Code
• Unique Skins for the iPhone, Wii, and more… all with Ajax and Flex

Source: Ajaxian
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