John Resig (founder of jQuery) has released his JavaScript port of the Processing visualization library today using Canvas. This is an excellent addition to the world of JavaScript graphics programming, it works best on Firefox 3.0.
I am going to keep close eye on this project.
I was amazed about Flex when I first saw it but even more amaze I got when I realize that as a developer I was not able to get even trial without paying. Like I posted about it in 2004. I never installed it to my pc where I evaluate everything before recommending to a customer. Macromedia clearly had forgot something that Microsoft does quite well.
Anyway, it seems that now that Adobe takes more developer friendly approach by announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). I hope not too late, though.
Microsoft will be very strong on bringing Silvelight to their developer community. Many says that Microsoft will fail because they have no graphics community behind but I don’t think it’s entirely true. After all they do have directX and great developer tools and network. Also, penetration market on Silverlight is easy to fix by wrapping it to some security update from WindowsUpdate.
I have always loved Adobe/Macromedia desktop products but somehow they are not very appealing for me when it comes to ServerSide. I think they should focus much more giving out to developers. After all it’s us who recommend products and it’s us who answers to our bosses questions if we should look deeper on the given technology.
The picture tells more than… well, it is possible to run Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions.
Thanks to Tredosoft Multiple IE installer this is easy task now.
It’s not fully stable but it’s good enough for testing sites with older browsers. Read more about it here
Instead of installing new Internet Explorer I strongly recommend to have a look Firefox 2.0 instead.
This is going to be in the news all over today.
Someone has created what Microsoft should have created, web developers and desiginers can now test their website without loosing IE6.
Run IE7 and IE6 at the same time without having to overwrite the previous version.
This is pretty obvious but I am going to make post anyway since I need to start to fork yet another JavaScript library. Atlas Javascript Library will be renamed to Microsoft AJAX Library and server-side stuff ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions.
From Ajaxian
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Scott Guthrie has announced the “Atlas” 1.0 Naming and Roadmap, which includes the news that Atlas 1.0 will ship around the end of this year, that it will become “fully supported” by Microsoft.
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A robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Built top of the eclipse. Worth of checking out. http://www.aptana.com/
jQuery 1.0 Released. Version 1.0 of the lightweight JavaScript effects / DOM / Ajax library has been released.
Here are some relevant links to get you started:
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