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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing makes it possible to do arbitrary calls from a web page to any server, if the server consents. It's a typical HTML5 play: We could do similar things before, but they were with hacks like JSONP. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing lets us can achieve more and do it [...]
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Wanting to explore WebSocket, I made a demo that syncs videos for all users looking at the page (See the Code). Any user can "take control", so that the other videos will follow the controller's video. Writing it was a cinch with the Javascript WebSocket API in the client, and the very straightforward Node WebSocket [...]
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Last week saw a confluence of excellent events. In the same week as a house move, it proved to be a week of much learning and little sleep. I'd hoped to do a better write-up, it never happened, a combination of being too busy and new MAC BATTERIES SUCK, meaning the lappy couldn't last [...]
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In under 5 minutes, a few quick notes on questions I was asked and general feedback on the talk.
Someone asked me if I'm involved in the project (ie contributor etc). I think the talk gave that impression too much, like I'm an evangelist . Doesn't help that I had a mail gadget open in [...]
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'Wiki' derived its name from the Hawaiian for "quick". But acronyms sell better in the corporate world, as anyone who's ever won a business case for working with POJOs will be acutely aware, or anyone who's found AJAX 0wns Ajax. JAVA beats Java when you're selling a $2K seminar and you wouldn't be the first [...]
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A reader just mailed me about what I see as concerns with Ajax right now...what's still worryng?
Well, here are a few things off the top of my head...
Accessibility is still a key issue, but more to do with if people bother to Ajaxify at all than if people break accessibility. If developers are required by [...]
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Conspicuous by its absence is a recording function in Skype. However, Skype competitor Gizmo has it and there are lots of third-party apps too. But what we really need is a skype recorder in the cloud.It's pretty obvious when you think about it. Most of the time when a conversation is recorded, you want to [...]
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Update (couple of hrs later): I mailed Alex Russell (the guy who named Comet and knows plenty about it), it sounds like he's been investigating this whole area and he's sent me his views.
We know about Comet (AKA Push, HTTP Streaming) and its ability to keep streaming info from server to browser. How about streaming [...]
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Comet Takes to IE Like a Fish Takes to Acid
Comet - or HTTP Streaming, if you will - is a little sensitive when it comes to portability, and I'll give you four guesses which major browser is causing the grief? Yeah, IE makes it difficult for two reasons: (a) IE's XMLHttpRequest component doesn't tell [...]
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Okay, for those watching my live blogging at Ajaxian, you know I've just been to San Francisco for the Ajax Experience. San Francisco is always a fine place to be for work or a conference, we're fortunate it turned out to be such an important place for our industry. I'm back home in London now [...]
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