Wired has a feature article with the man who coined the term “AJAX”,
Jesse James Garrett, where he suggests that AIR will be another boost for web apps. It really great to see the HTML/CSS/JS crowd embracing the AIR plaform just as it’s great to see Adobe embracing the same community.
O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com site has the first part in a new series documenting The Power of Google Gears. Part one outlines the database portion of the Google Gears API while future tutorials will show you how to use the WorkerPool and LocalServer API’s.
MiniAjax.com has a showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts that can add some zip and spice to your websites. The scripts have all been created and hosted by other authors, but this is a nice place to start to browse some of the most popular scripts of the past year or so.
Prototype 1.5: The Complete Documentation has just been released. This 166 page pdf e-book was written by Sam Stephenson and the Prototype team so should be an authoritative source of docs.
Mootools is a small object-oriented JavaScript library that is crossbrowser compatible and easy to use. Some features include DOM effects, Ajax, DOM Navigator, drag and drop, sortable lists, cookies management and much more. The framework also makes it easy to extend HTML elements with your own methods, to help make your coding style way cooler.
One of the nicer features is the way you download mootools. You choose the features you want to use, and mootools packages a custom JS file that includes all dependencies. This makes mootools very small and efficient!
Jack Slocum offers some 3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks. This article offers three great tips and an overview of using Leak Monitor to detect places where your JavaScript may be leaking.
Mike Papageorge from FiftyFourEleven has a great method for Debugging Server Side Ajax Functions. He has a general purpose PHP function that writes debug information to a simple text file that then can be opened in your browser.
Particletree offers a Quick Guide to the Prototype JavaScript library. This library is amazing and will help speed the development of your DOM/AJAX based web applications.
IBM Developer Works has an introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X). EX4 is an extension to JavaScript that makes XML scripting very simple. This two part series demonstrates how combining AJAX and some new XML extensions to JavaScript can DOM scripting very simple.
