MetaFilter posts tagged with ajax

a micro-site for micro-frameworks

the noob — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:53:50 -0800

Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit

Throbbing Gristle

wcfields — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:17:34 -0800

One of the first uses of a graphical throbber was in NCSA Mosaic. Command line versions did exist, but most were a spinning slash. Nowadays, with Ajax, they have become nothing more than variations of spinning gray wheels to indicate loading or buffering. Gone are the more creative ones like, Netscape, whose throbber is a condensed loop of how the dinosaurs became extinct.

A trip down memory lane?

Phire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:12:40 -0800

Welcome (back) to Windows 3.1. "Michaelv.org is coded in JavaScript and strict XHTML 1.0, with AJAX functionality provided through PHP. It has been tested for compatibility in Firefox and IE. Firefox 2 or 3 is highly recommended, but the site is almost entirely functional in IE 6, 7, or 8. Media Player does not work in IE as IE lacks the ability to dynamically instantiate ."

Write less, do more

Artw — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:02:18 -0800

January 14th marks the 4th birthday of jQuery and also the release of jQuery 1.4. To celebrate the release of the latest version of the popular JavaScript library the jQuery team has created the 14 Days of jQuery site, which will be updated each day with a new announcement or release. There’s also prizes to be had for the coolest use of jQuery.

The Ajax Experience

netbros — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:37:29 -0800

There's lots going on with HTML5. Get the latest from the folks at Ajaxian. First, find out What's New in HTML5 (The WHATWG Blog), then look into the new Microdata Spec. There's a Sticky Notes Tutorial, and an examination of the Canvas Tag. Getting the nitty gritty details right.

AJAX NETHACK

boo_radley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:23:02 -0800

Did you know there's an AJAX implementation of nethack? It seems to be pretty full-featured -- not a rouge-like light, supporting every option that the normal version does, right down to tiles. For traditionalists, there's also the internet nethack server known as NAO, where you can mingle with and watch other players struggle through the Dungeons of Doom and lose time in a stunning amount of trivia and statistics. To extend your chances of success you might also want to visit wikihack, which will certainly spoil your experience, detailing the tiniest details and tactics of the game.

High Performance Web Sites

netbros — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:54:31 -0800

Steve Souders works on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance, and is a bestseller. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. He always shares best practices, for example, 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites, and the very informative State of Performance featuring his predictions for web performance in 2009. Steve links many of his industry presentations, and his blog is a wealth of studies, reports, techniques, and tips for measuring, monitoring and improving web site performance. Check out Episodes, a framework for timing web pages with examples to put in your code. Geek Nirvana. High Performance Web Sites

Ancient Greek Drama for the Moderns

wittgenstein — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:54:59 -0800

"The plays can reassure a soldier, she says, 'that I am not alone, that I am not going crazy, that I am joined by the ages of warriors and their loved ones who've gone before me, and who have done what most in society have no idea our warriors do.' " The Philoctetes Project. (video available)

The Tombs of Asciiroth

boo_radley — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:43:54 -0800

The Tombs of Asciiroth : A puzzle/adventure game you can play in your browser

Chess 2.0

boo_radley — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:09:10 -0800

Ajax your chess experience up with 64squar.es.

Local-online-applications-API

acro — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:58:59 -0800

'Google Gears' is program interface for AJAX application developers. * A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server * A database, to store and access data from within the browser * A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Web Accessibility Linkdump

sciurus — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:27:59 -0800

Web Sites Accessible for Everyone is a fairly comprehensive site, offering a variety of resources for anyone interested in website accessibility. I've found the AJAX and Accessibility section particularly interesting. Thank you University of Washington.

Introducing Jikto

scalefree — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:40:05 -0800

Klaatu barada...Jikto? First there was Nikto. Then along came Wikto. Last Saturday at Shmoocon Billy Hoffman introduced the world to Jitko, a client-side vulnerability scanner that exploits your browser & turns your PC into a platform for finding holes in computers across the Internet (or behind your firewall). Reactions were mixed. Does Jikto go too far?

Goodbye, free time.

boo_radley — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:17:23 -0800

Vox Imperium A pretty deep web based civilization game.

At least I didn't mentione Web 2.0 in the post...

blahblahblah — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:54:37 -0800

Google's word processor (re)launches. Formerly known as Writely, the online application, with all kinds of nifty collaborative features, joins a wide range of free online word processors, including the decent Zoho (you can see reviews of many online word processors here). Want to do presentations instead? Check out Thumbstacks or ThinkFree (with 1 GB of storage). If drawing is your thing, try Litha-Paint, or use SnipShot to crop pictures and save them to Flickr or your computer. Even GE's gotten into the free web application act with their no-registration-required collaborative whiteboard. And the number of free web applications just keeps growing...

Google Web Toolkit + Texas Holdem Poker = gpokr.com

nobody — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:57:51 -0800

Google Web Toolkit + Texas Holdem Poker = gpokr.com. I should probably be embarrassed about how much time I've spent in the last few weeks playing poker online for pretend money. As the site operator mentions in his development blog, it seems to be the small things that make the site so sticky: elegant ajax design, players' rankings displayed and updated right next to their names at the table, a slew of player statistics presented on the main ranking page, even more statistics and graphs on each user page. (Oh, and out of 5000 or so current players, I seem to be #1).

SIMILE Timeline

Mr. Six — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:20:16 -0800

MIT SIMILE Timeline — a unique AJAX-based scheduling manager with a unique Google Maps-like graphical interface

Flow charts, get your flow charts.

dmd — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:15:13 -0800

Mac users have the excellent Omnigraffle, Windows users the ubiquitous Visio. Now there's an AJAX diagramming tool called Gliffy. What's next in the Office suite for AJAXification?

Find your bearings

pithy comment — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:12 -0800

A9 Maps now combines Amazon's BlockView images in another ajax map interface (with the maps by Mapquest, interestingly). Amazon has been driving around major cities taking photos of each block and now as you browse the map, street-level images come up alongside. The interface isn't quite intuitive, but it is nice to see the idea coming together.

Airfare 2.0

mkultra — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:30:59 -0800

Yahoo has launched a sweet new airfare site. Not only does it do the expected fare comparison across several airlines, but it incorporates a highly-configurable, AJAX-based interface to let you filter results in real time. [via]

Back to Web 1.0, I Guess

grrarrgh00 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:42:13 -0800

"A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. ... The patent--issued on Valentine's Day--covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles, says inventor Neil Balthaser, CEO of Balthaser Online, which he owns with his father Ken. 'You can consider it a pioneering or umbrella patent. The broader claim is one that basically says that if you got a rich Internet application, it is covered by this patent.'" (via Jeff Zeldman)

Yahoo Opens Up

empath — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:49:27 -0800

Tools for Web Developers. Yahoo gives away some free stuff for people who want to get into Ajax Development. This seems like a nice addition to the other libraries already available.

Everything looks better with a graph

jonson — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:10 -0800

My awesomeness is at an all time high, as this chart will clearly demonstrate. And thanks to the magical people at Bellygraph.com, I can create & update charts to illustrate all the trends that matter to me, from my own personal awesomeness to total number of pugs owned or whatever other metric I choose.

Search for flats in Switzerland

slater — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:20:48 -0800

Looking for a flat in Switzerland? Yes, yet more ajax-y, web2.0 stuff, with satellite maps. This site crawls a number of swiss realty sites, and displays the available flats on a dynamic, zoomable map, according to your search criteria.

Livemarks

srboisvert — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:15:55 -0800

Livemarks. Watch Del.icio.us live.