I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax frameworks, like JQuery and GWT, to provide programmer friendly APIs for canvas based visualizations.

The July edition of GroovyMag is out! There's a lot of great articles in it including the one I authored entitled 'Inline Editing with jQuery'. The goal of the article is to teach the user how to create an inline editable datatable which supports editing with textfields, textareas, select lists, and datepickers. On top of all that is sprinkled a healthy dose of ajaxy goodness.

KANA 10 was built using WaveMaker and the IBM SOA Foundation and was developed in conjunction with IBM customers. KANA did a complete rewrite of their entire suite of applications in less than a year - a terrific validation for Web 2.0, Ajax and SOA technologies.

At CommunityOne, Chris Schalk and I presented our ideas on how to integrate Ajax Push with OpenSocial: Developing Sleek and Collaborative Applications with OpenSocial and AJAX Push. For the dramatic conclusion to our talk, we showed a demo that used ICEfaces Ajax Push to push OpenSocial Activity updates to connected users.

Since the last time I posted browser benchmarks, Google Chrome jumped to version 2, Safari released version 4, Internet Explorer 8 was released, and just yesterday Firefox version 3.5 hit the intertubes. Furthermore, the Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks have been refined and expanded since then, so it’s high time we update the numbers.

This is a list of jQuery plugins that jQuery Developers can utilize in development of their own jQuery components, tools and applications.

Continuing my ‘no less than an exciting’ journey of exploring ASP.NET with jQuery, today’s article will demonstrate how to Upload multiple files in ASP.NET using jQuery.

For a few moments when I first approached ASP.NET MVC I really thought it was the negation of AJAX. With a programming model heavily based on REST principles, I thought all that one could do is invoke a URL. And when you get, or post to, a URL, you inevitably involve the browser and get a full-page refresh. As I’ve explored it more, and as the facts have largely shown, my first impression was dead wrong. AJAX is definitely possible in ASP.NET MVC.

ZK 3.6.2 supports Google App Engine, allowing you to run ZK in the Google cloud! For more details on the installation procedure please refer to this how to.