High Level / Big News
June has been a busy month, and the focus has been around the release of Google Gears, and the Apple iPhone. Both have shaken up the market showing the the future for Ajax is bright and expanding. It is reaching to the desktop, and the phone.
Offline: Gears and AIR
Shortly after Gears was released we saw a flurry of activity that consisted of apps being ported to work offline and libraries being extended to support offline use:
- Interview with Mike Tsao of the Google Gears team
- Aflax and Google Gears
- Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears
- Google Gears DB Abstractions
- GearShift: DB Migration Handling Library
- Ext JS Gears Integration
- Experimental WorkerPool API
- Remember The Milk Offline
- jMaki Extension for Google Gears
- Base diving with Gears
- Mandelbrot Demo using a WorkerPool
Adobe renamed Apollo to AIR and continues to stay in the news:
Mobile / iPhone
The hype around the iPhone is almost unprecedented. We have tried to keep from joining in, but there has been a lot of interesting work done around Ajax support, and the iPhone is pushing the bounds on Mobile Ajax, just by getting users online. The users will demand more, and vendors will have to step up. We will then have to deliver the applications that they deserve. In the US there isn't the luxury of a top notch network, so we need to deliver it in a smart way too.
- Safari for Windows, Ajax on iPhone
- iPhone Interface in JavaScript
- iPhone Application List
- Mobile Ajax News: iPhone and Opera Mini
- iPhone and Ajax: onpinch(), mac simulator, and Cringely
- iPhone Development: Aptana and Morfik
- iPhone Safari Notes and Quirks
Browsers and Standards
With Safari for Windows being announced there has been a lot of talk around browsers. We also got some good news with significant IE memory leaks being fixed.
- "The CSS working group is irrelevant"
- ECMAScript Edition 4 Reference Implementation
- Safari 3: Onload firing, and bad timing
- Firefox 3: SQLite and more
- Safari 3 and CSS 3
- New Safari / WebKit Inspector
- IE Memory Leaks Be-gone
- SlickSpeed CSS Selector TestSuite
Ajax Libraries
General JavaScript
- EJS: Embedded JavaScript Client Side Preprocessor
- JsLex: Profile your Ajax applications
- qooxdoo 0.7 released
- SlickSpeed CSS Selector TestSuite
- A JavaScript Module Pattern
- Ajax, javascript and threads : the final truth
- Magic DOM
- DP_Debug: JavaScript Debugging Extensions
GWT
- GWT a Year Later: Was it the correct level of abstraction?
- Chronoscope: GWT Charting and Vector Graphics platform
- GWT Ext Integration
Moo
The FancyUpload with MooTools component is yet another attempt to help with browser based uploads.
Ext
Ext is growing from strength to strength. The team announced Ext 1.1 Beta + Feed Reader 3 Demo, thoughts on 2.0 alpha, a new Ext Accordion Control, and IDE support via Spket IDE: Ext Support. I think July will be an even bigger month.
Prototype
jQuery
Showcases
Some high profile sites and apps have gotten an upgrade such as Apple, CNN, and Google Docs and Spreadsheets Updated.
We also saw useful tools such as an Entity Lookup that helps.
source : ajaxian.com
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