Server-Centric versus Browser-Centric
James Strachan: Is Ajax gonna kill the web frameworks?:
Including modern words in modern dictionaries
What manner of 19th century public domain dicitonaries are packaged with 21st century software? For Montogomery Burns, these word lists would be just spifflicastic, but maybe not for the average citizen.
Advanced Feature Wishlist for Ajax Frameworks
Looking at the best practice/process patterns gave me some ideas for Ajax frameworks. Here’s a few thoughts. I know some frameworks already do some of these things, though most don’t, and none do all of them.
8 New Ajax Patterns (Diagnosis and Testing)
Cool! The Best Practices/Processes Patterns are now complete. They are the final eight Ajax Patterns for now - “final” in the sense of “the list is not yet finalised”. The patterns had been sitting there unattended for about four months...
HTTP Streaming: An Alternative to Polling the Server
If Ajax apps are to be rich, there must be a way for the server to pass new information to the browser. For example, new stock quotes or an instant message someone else just sent you. But the browser’s not...