Monthly Ajaxian Roundup for July, 2007: iPhone and the Plugin Wars

The summer is traditionally a slow time, but this July had some fun happenings. The iPhone buzz continued, and Episode 2: The Plugin Wars continued. Mozilla announced that their front was moving the battle to enemy territory. Brendan Eich said, “If we fight them over in IE, they won’t come fight us over here” ;) He then launched his Iron Screaming Monkeys and Microsoft retaliated by hinting that “for performance reasons” they may have to take out the scripting host in future versions of IE.

iPhone

• Firebug for iPhone
• iPhone Javascript and spec benchmark
• New York on Tap iPhone App
• iPhone Web Development Tips and Official Documentation Released
• iPhone Native Looking Skin
• iPhoneDevCamp Wrapup Including IUI
• iUI gets even better: cleanup and features
• Joe Hewitt presentation on iUI (Video)
• iPhone Update: Pickleview, Dojo Chat, iUI generation, Ajax Search and more

Frameworks

Dojo

• Dojo 0.9: The next generation is here
• Dojo Offline: 0.9 and Gears
• Hacking Firebug with Dojo
• Why choose Dojo?
• AOL Mgnet with Dojo

Script.aculo.us

• Script.aculo.us Effect.Tooltip
• Script.aculo.us Accordion

ExtJS

• Ext.ux.UploadForm: An Ext File Upload Widget
• Ext File Tree Widget

Yahoo! UI

• YUI 2.3 Released: Rich Text Editor, Components, and Themes
• YUI-based Image Cropper Widget

jQuery

• jQuery 1.1.3: 800%+ Faster, still 20KB

JavaScript

• JavaScript as a Language
• JavaScript running to the server
• Purple Include: Transclusions, you know you want them!
• Responder: Unobtrusive Framework
• JavaScript Strands: Adding Futures to JavaScript
• J4P5: JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5
• DOMDom: More DOM, Less DOM
• Feed Discovery API added to AJAX Feed API
• Functional JavaScript
• @tomic XML-RPC JavaScript Client

Offline

• Google Gears ORM 0.1
• TrimPath is back, now with Gears
• Google Gears Roadmap and Features
• Google Gears for Offline Data Entry
• Sales Builder AIR Application Update

CSS

• CSS Redundancy Checker
• CSS Selectors - Speed Myths
• Computed vs Cascaded Style

Browsers

• Mozilla Announces Screaming, Iron, Action Monkeys - Tamarin in IE
• ActionMonkey: Getting rid of the spiders in the browser
• WebKit and KHTML sitting in a tree…
• Browser Possesion
• Keybindings in Web Browsers

Tools

• Yahoo! Announces YSlow, Firebug based performance tool
• End-to-End Tracing of Ajax/Java Applications Using DTrace
• XRAY: Peer into your web pages

Showcases

• Uncluttr: A cleaner Amazon
• Prague 360: Maps with quality
• Versionate: Wiki / Document Collaboration
• Slideshow Karaoke
• InputDraw: Allow Drawing in Forms
• Timeplot: Canvas-based Specialized Charting Tool
• Cellsea Ajax Video Editor

source: ajaxian.com