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Rich UI Apps Should Not Be Considered Harmful

Blogs - 20 days ago

Herb Sutter is a great leader in our industry, and he has taken on Jeff Atwood’s post on Web 2.0 app design.
It comes to the age old issue of how “desktop-y” do you make your Web application? Herb believes that having them look like desktop apps is natural. I think that I dis read more

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Steve’s State of Performance 2008

Blogs - 20 days ago

Steve Souders has a nice performance roundup for 2008 that details some of the important utilities and knowledge that we gained this year.
His post gets even more interesting when he posits about the future, including:

Visibility into the Browser: Packet sniffers (like HTTPWatch, Fi read more

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Ajax as Flash: Achmea

Blogs - 21 days ago

Remon de Boer sent us a link to Achmea.nl, a Dutch website that brought back memories of Thomas Fuch’s Ajax makeover of Gucci’s website some time ago.
Ironically, Achmea.nl starts out by displaying a Flash-powered “Loading” graphic:

But once the site loads, i read more

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RUI is not accessible? Check out Yahoo’s new Currency Converter

Blogs - 21 days ago

I am proud to be able to announce the new currency converter on Yahoo finance. Why? Because it is a perfect example of how a complex rich user interface can be built in an accessible manner.

As the main developer, Dirk Ginader explains:
About 9 months ago my fellow co-worker, the U read more

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OilCan: Grease up your Android browser

Blogs - 21 days ago

Jeffrey Sharkey has created OilCan a thin wrapper on top of the WebKit shipping on Android that allows you to install userscripts that allow you to access to Android "Intents".
Intents are very nice abstractions that allow you to access large components and reuse them in different ways. Romain read more

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Music Player UI

Blogs - 21 days ago

Yensdesign has a nice little example of a music player UI that uses mouse gestures and key handling to give a clean experience.
Songza did a great job here, and I still use it to find songs for the kids. read more

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Finally something to get a few more users off of IE 6?

Blogs - 21 days ago

We desperately want users to upgrade to the latest and greatest. A prominent and respected Web citizen recently said “With Ajax we are developing to 1997 technology, and are restricted by IE 6.” What if you didn’t have that nagging feeling, and instead could use the platform that read more

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Census 2: Benchmarking RIAs Rebooted

Blogs - 21 days ago

Alex Russell decided to rewrite and create Census 2 to act as a new benchmark for various RIA techniques. This is based on the the original Census benchmark done by James Ward of Adobe.

There are several goals of this re-write:

Fairness. Tests need to be run multiple times for read more

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Tech Luminaries: Interview with Brendan Eich

Blogs - 22 days ago

Dion and I have been wanting to do a podcast series for a long time that is more casual then Audible Ajax–just chatting with some of the luminaries in tech about their careers and such. We collected some content quite a ways back and have finally gotten around to releasing some of it over on read more

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JavaScript Raster Bar Effect

Blogs - 22 days ago

This is a fun canvas demo by Stefan Pettersson that brings you back to your Amiga days (if you remember those, or weren’t an Atari man).

You can check out the JavaScript that makes the world turn.

function start() {
var resolution = 25;
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