10/03/05
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FCKeditor is an HTML text editor that brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. Again, I encourage you to look at the demo. The resemblance to Microsoft Word is disconcerting. And here, no ActiveX. Only some JavaScript. Of course it's fully cross-browser as it supports IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+ and Netscape 7+. |
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Zimbra is an Ajax-based webmail. Zimbra is an Open Source Software; it follows Mozilla Public License (MPL). You must see the demo of Zimbra. It shows some of the great features of Zimbra:
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08/22/05
OpenLaszlo, framework for Rich Internet Applications -
Categories: XML, JavaScript, Web Design, OpenLaszlo, RIA -
Serge Baccou
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OpenLaszlo is an open-source framework to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA). It's based on Flash from Macromedia. You describe your GUI in LZX, the Laszlo XML-based language, using industry standards such as XML, JavaScript, and XPath. This demo illustrates the potential of OpenLaszlo. And this is to learn Laszlo in 10 minutes. |
07/06/05
Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript + XML -
Categories: XML, XSLT, JavaScript, Ajax -
Serge Baccou
@ 11:27:47 pm
 | Ajax means "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML". It's not a library but more an architecture, a new approach for web applications based on existing building blocks (XML, CSS, Javascript). The goal of Ajax is to have a more rich user experience in web applications. Ajax is described in an essay from James Garret from Adaptive Path. Google Suggest and Google Maps are good examples of what can be done using Ajax. On this French article on Ajax from Framasoft, we learn that OpenRico is an open-source JavaScript library for creating rich internet applications and that implement Ajax. You should also go to Michael Mahemoff's web site on Ajax called Ajax Patterns. It's a tremendous collection of design patterns based on Ajax principles. Even if Ajax brings probably nothing really new in term of technologies, it has the creditable goal to put user experience in the top prio of web design. |
07/05/05
Today, I realize that when developing advanced web applications, we always want to keep an eye on the Javascript console. Ok, in Firefox, there is a little red exclamation mark icon 
(provided by the Firefox Web Developer Extension, see my article on this topic) when a Javascript error occurs. But if you are not enough concentrated on this exclamation mark icon, you can miss some Javascript errors.
This is a tip (found here) to open the Javascript console on the sidebar:
- Click on the Bookmarks menu and select Manage Bookmarks?
- Click the New Bookmark toolbar button
- Enter JavaScript Console as the name
- Enter chrome://global/content/console.xul as the location
- Check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar checkbox
- Click OK
- Use the created bookmark to open the sidebar
Very useful when developing and testing, isn't it?
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