Archive for February, 2006

Google AJAX Web Page Editor

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Google’s got an editor, an AJAX, WYSIWYG editor. Google Pages.
From the Site:

Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.
No technical knowledge required.
Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or […]

TinyAJAX (PHP)

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

From the site (http://www.metz.se/tinyajax/index.php):

TinyAjax allows you to:
AJAX enable your pages without having to write a single line of javascript
Call PHP functions in classes or as separate functions, you can even extend TinyAjax by subclassing it
Let your PHP-code set which elements to alter and with what using behaviours
Integrate it with a template system (smarty-example included)
Easily have […]

Advanced Request/Resonse

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Users are more advanced and expect more from applications. Simple UI is not acceptable in the 21st century. See this article for more information. It’s quite good; the author dives deepter in to:
The HTTP ready state

The HTTP status code

The types of requests that you can make
Enjoy!

Yahoo! AJAX UI Library

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Yahoo! has released an AJAX UI library and a set of Design Patterns. Here you can learn more about Yahoo! UI Lbrary ; and here you can learn more about Yahoo! Patterns.
“The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications […]

PHP to bundle JSON

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

A really interesting feature of open source is the ability to move quickly in response to user demands. According to this post, PHP will include the php-json module with standard distribution.