* The ability to update portions of a Web page without refreshing the entire screen, which can, for example, enable users to scroll through a virtual map or photographs without refreshing their browser screens. It can also enable calendars to pop up when a user mouses over a date in an email.
* Determining, on the fly, that information typed into a Web screen is appropriate -- such as when entering information on an order form. This can eliminate the delay and frustration of submitting an online form, only to have the server flag mistakes one at a time.
* Dragging and dropping of objects inside a Web browser similar to the capabilities available on computer desktops to move folders and documents around.
* A rich set of buttons, icons, scroll bars, menus and widgets that can ease and speed navigation, as well as simplify information retrieval.
This is Not Just Lip Service And the initiative, although not centralized, appears to offer much more than lip service by its major proponents. IBM, for example, has proposed the contribution of its software to the Eclipse Foundation and Mozilla Corporation "that will allow one to develop and debug an AJAX application," the company said in an official statement.
The proposed Eclipse AJAX toolkit framework "is the first approach that supports multiple AJAX runtime toolkits," according to an official statement. "Its personality builder can typically enable additional toolkits in less than an hour. The runtimes presently supported are from Dojo, OpenRico and Zimbra. Moving forward, other community members will also be able to participate in the proposed Eclipse project with the incorporation of other personality builders or toolkit extensions."
Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich (pictured above) told us that the Foundation "is going to host the project, focused on two of the open AJAX initiatives. The first was started by IBM some time ago, and there’s been a proposal up on our website now for it for about a week or two, for a project for the tool for the open AJAX initiative. The idea is that these tools are going to be open ended."
Zimbra President and CTO Scott Dietzen (pictured left) noted that his company "has been developing AJAX applications for two years," and that it will make its AJAX runtime toolkit available to the community under Apache and Mozilla public licenses.
The runtime toolkit provides an object-oriented JavaScript class library with a standard set of widgets, an event framework, and communication tools. The resulting applications can be served from virtually any server and run in any browser, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
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initiative that seems
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momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
j j wrote: IBM is taking
the lead role in rolling
out an 'Open AJAX'
initiative that seems
sure to add significant
momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
j j wrote: IBM is taking
the lead role in rolling
out an 'Open AJAX'
initiative that seems
sure to add significant
momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
j j wrote: IBM is taking
the lead role in rolling
out an 'Open AJAX'
initiative that seems
sure to add significant
momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
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significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
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Desk wrote: IBM is taking
the lead role in rolling
out an 'Open AJAX'
initiative that seems
sure to add significant
momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
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wrote: IBM is taking the
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significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
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Desk wrote: IBM is taking
the lead role in rolling
out an 'Open AJAX'
initiative that seems
sure to add significant
momentum to recent
grassroots efforts to
bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
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News Desk wrote: IBM is
taking the lead role in
rolling out an 'Open
AJAX' initiative that
seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: IBM is taking the
lead role in rolling out
an 'Open AJAX' initiative
that seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
AJAX News Desk wrote: IBM
is taking the lead role
in rolling out an 'Open
AJAX' initiative that
seems sure to add
significant momentum to
recent grassroots efforts
to bring Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, or
AJAX, application
development to the
forefront of the
i-technology universe.
Open source organizations
such as Eclipse and
Mozilla are backing the
initiative, as are a
suite of companies that
each bring something
unique to this effort.
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The proposed Eclipse AJAX toolkit framework "is the first approach that supports multiple AJAX runtime toolkits," according to an official statement. "Its personality builder can typically enable additional toolkits in less than an hour. The runtimes presently supported are from Dojo, OpenRico and Zimbra. Moving forward, other community members will also be able to participate in the proposed Eclipse project with the incorporation of other personality builders or toolkit extensions."
Zimbra President and CTO Scott Dietzen (pictured left) noted that his company "has been developing AJAX applications for two years," and that it will make its AJAX runtime toolkit available to the community under Apache and Mozilla public licenses.
Also in the book, DeFrank
writes about Ford's
opinion of Bill Clinton's
addiction to women. Ford
says about Clinton: 'He's
sick - he's got an
addiction. He needs
treatment. He's sick. You
know there is treatment
for this kind of
addiction. A lot of men
have gone through the
treatment w
Web 2.0 tools are doing a
wonderful job of
providing consumers with
cool and productive new
ways of performing
common, simple tasks over
the Internet. These tools
primarily perform a
single task such as
allowing consumers to
manage their photos, read
their favorite newsfeeds,
express t
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
'While the last decade
was focused on the Web,
the next phase in the
evolution of our industry
will be on the
convergence of Web,
mobile and desktop
applications and the
ability to extend
existing applications
with these new
technologies for a
consistent user
experience regardless of
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