Tag: AJAX

Google's Blogger service has launched a new extension for Google's Chrome browser today, called Blogger Dynamic Views. As its name implies, this is related to last week's unveiling of five new HTML5-based Dynamic Views for Blogger. The extension adds an orange Blogger icon in your address bar when you're visiting a Blogger blog. If you click on the orange icon, you'll get a list of the five ...

Google, as part of its ongoing and much-needed overhaul of its popular Blogger platform, has just enabled five dynamic, HTML5ish, AJAXy 'Dynamic Views'. There's a video introducing the new layouts after the break. The five new views provide fresh and interesting ways to explore your favorite Blogger blogs. The Mosaic view, for example, creates a wall of thumbnails -- click one, and it zooms ...

Campfire is a slick way for teams to communicate, collaborate, and share via the Web -- but if you're searching for a simple, free alternative, a new project called Holla is worth a look. Holla is an open-source chat and file sharing Web app. While it lacks Campfire's more advanced features, like transcripts and voice calling, Holla still provides an elegantly simple way to assemble a group ...

CSS Grid Builder is a neat tool for Web designers (from ZURB, the company behind Notable). So what's a CSS grid? CSS Grids are often used by Web designers to control page layout and position elements in a somewhat sensible fashion. Grid Builder lets you specify what sort of grid you would like to have and spits out just the CSS you need. The top section of the window has a simple form to fill out ...

GTmetrix is a good tool for figuring out why your website is slow. It uses Yahoo's YSlow performance evaluation tool, but it also adds some intelligence of its own. Using it is quite simple. Feed it a domain name and GTMetrix loads the page in the background while you wait, and then routes you to a report page. The report is manager-friendly: It starts out with a summary in huge letters, grading ...

Picasa is awesome. The way that it integrates with Web Albums is very convenient, and the process of selecting your best images and uploading them to an online album is extremely polished. However, when the time comes to share this album with your friends, you might want to show them something a bit more personalized than a generic Picasa Web Albums link. If you are a professional or aspiring ...

Rejex is a very handy little site for building and testing regular expressions on the fly. It's composed of four simple text boxes and a very informative cheat sheet (not shown above, but after the jump). You feed your text into the "Test String" box (the middle one), and then your expression into the top box, and immediately see the matches in the bottom box. Here I am searching for instances of ...

If you don't know what Emacs is, this is probably the least exciting news you'll read all week. In fact, if you're not an Emacs user, just skip this article. Also, if you're a hardened-and-bearded Vi user, move along -- but what're the chances of one of the 10 remaining Vi users actually reading Download Squad anyway? Slim to none. They've probably all been cryogenically frozen to await the day ...

Tireless patent troll Intellectual Property holder Eolas has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against, well.. nearly everyone. The issue at hand deals with two patents in Eolas' possession -- the first of which was the subject of a successful lawsuit against Microsoft back in 2004. The second patent, what Eolas refers to as "a continuation of the '906 ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition: Google I/O round-up Use Google to reference your JavaScript libraries Google Web Toolkit 1.5 RC Other random Google bits ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google, the day-late, extra-tasty edition! This edition covers: AJAX Language API Google Analytics benchmarking goes live YouTube 2007 Video Award Winners Google Apps get newest Gmail features ...

Search interfaces that use more than one page are starting to look quaint and old-fashioned. Why open your results in another tab if you don't have to? The talented designers behind Compfight have come up with a lightweight Ajax search tool for a service we use every day: Flickr. Compfight fits all the most important Flickr search options into its minimal design. You can switch between tags ...

There's a lot of garbage on Craigslist -- including vowels, apparently. Crgslst cuts to the chase, providing a quick Ajax site that switches between cities and categories on Craigslist with one click. It looks a lot prettier than the real thing, too! Since there are hundreds of different city pages on Craigslist now, you can save a ton of time by jumping between them within the same search. ...

It isn't every day that Douglas Crockford (the father of JSON and JSLint) pops up with a new tech talk. In this one he discusses the current state of Ajax development, why mashups are inherently insecure, why the standards process is broken, and how our best hope for a newer better platform may be mobile. Say what? Basically he proposes the idea that because the replacement rate on mobile phones ...

Bloglines has just packed a bunch of new features into its online news feed searching, subscribing to and reading service, and it all begins with a start page. Bloglines headlines its new feature developments with a personalized start page. This is the page that brings everything together in a quick and easy view with an AJAX interface. There is nothing like starting feed reading off with a view ...