Version 4 contains a useful range of object constructs, and version 5 goes much further down that road, although it is yet to become widely established with large hosting organisations. While one might suppose that the logic of the application...
With the list of web 2.0 companies growing daily, some question the long-term viability of these new ventures and whether a dot-com-style bubble is forming. More web developers are using a programming technique known as Ajax, which stands for...
Earlier in the day BEA's founder, chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang told delegates at the company's European conference in Prague that MySpace-style virtual communities are coming to the enterprise. The Adrenaline technology allows portal applications...
In addition, he said the Ajax web programming style needs more client-side application programming interfaces to allow developers to create more powerful applications. Specifically, he said Microsoft will invest more in layout and adhering to the...
The initial code is aimed at JavaScript developers who write Ajax-style web applications. One of the key capabilities of Ajax development - XMLHttpRequest - came out in 1998 and took years to catch on, in part because of applications such as Google...
RIM is also promising the new tools will offer developers better functionality for their browser-based mobile applications, notably improved web-page rendering with Ajax, Javascript 1.5, CSS 2.1, DOM L2 and HTML 4.01, and support for downloading...