Since Apple has decided to release Safari for Windows, it got me thinking, what’s preventing me from using Safari as my default browser for web development. Up until now, I had been using Firefox with a few extensions for web development: Venkman, Firebug, and Web Developer. It got me thinking, Apple is releasing Safari so Windows users can develop for the iPhone. I’m thinking that’s the main reason, and it might be nice to pull some of the marketshare as well. Since I primarily use Macs for my web development, I wanted to see if others were using Safari for web development and what their feedback has been. Read the rest of this entry »

Techcrunch has a post regarding the new beta version of Blogger.com. It looks like it’s upgrades some JavaScript with Google style making it easier for people to blog on their platform. I personally use my own blogging software or setup blogs for people on Wordpress or Typepad, but I know a lot of people that just want a basic blog and Blogger is a good choice for them. Read the rest of this entry »

There was a post on Adomas Paltanavicius website giving a tutorial about mouse wheel programming in JavaScript. It is a pretty clever idea and doing more and more AJAX-like applications I can see this tutorial becoming more and more useful. At this time I never really thought about implementing code for the mouse wheel but in upcoming projects I think I will find this tutorial very helpful. Read the rest of this entry »

The Vitamin has an article on the importance of maintainable JavaScript. Since I have been doing more and more AJAX web applications for clients this has becoming such an important point especially as web applications become larger and larger and more dependent on JavaScript to create its function. Read the rest of this entry »

DHTML Goodies has a post on their site including code for a folder tree with drag and drop capabilities. It is actually a pretty creative script and works very well. It also has a demo and tutorial to implement it into your own site. Read the rest of this entry »

The Vitamin has a post on 15 things you can do with the Yahoo! UI. I have to admit, Yahoo did a pretty good job of creating the library. A lot of the features are pretty slick and can help us developers when we are creating Web 2.0 applications. I used to be opposed to using others components and felt more comfortable using my own widgets that I created. I have learned to use my own as well as some of the other elements that others have created and it has helped increase my efficiency tremendously. Read the rest of this entry »

Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of clients have been requesting edit in place editing for their Web 2.0 applications. It’s a simple but very useful feature. It makes editing documents on the web a lot faster than the traditional point and click. Now there are many ways to tackle the problem but there is some pretty good documentation on Joseph Scott’s blog. Now I wouldn’t say this is a perfect solution, no solution really is, but it does work and get the job done. I’m sure over time this code will evolve as all coding usually does. Read the rest of this entry »

I haven’t really attempted to create my own Firefox extensions. I think it would be pretty cool to create some tools people could use, but I can’t seem to find the time to do projects like these. In fact, I sometimes find it hard to write entries in my blogs. For those interested in writing their own extensions, there is a pretty good tutorial on roachfiend.com. Read the rest of this entry »