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Ajax eager to get back on track
Citizen, South Africa - JOHANNESBURG – After losing to Kaizer Chiefs last weekend, Ajax Cape Town will be determined to get back to winning ways. Ajax entertain Bloemfontein Celtic … Cape weather, poor finishing worry Celtic Carelse wants a league medal |
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New Versions Deliver AJAX Support, New Photo Enhancement Effects …
imaging resource (press release), GA - Highlights of the new releases include support for AJAX, comprehensive new photo enhancement and special effects, and support for more than 100 additional … |
We’ve heard a lot about optimizing CSS, HTML and JavaScript but one thing that is less talked about is how much extra information image editors put into image files. You might think you’ve done a great job optimizing your GIFs, PNGs and JPGs while still keeping them visually pleasing but when you use a text editor you’ll realize that there is quite a big amount of data you can save by removing information about the image editor used, the date the file was edited last and lots of other bits that really are redundant.
There are a lot of free tools that strip this information from the files for you and squeeze some extra optimization out of the file without affecting the look. The problem is that all of them are command-line based and you need to know how to use them. Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan of the Yahoo exceptional performance team took all of these tools and their experience in using them and built one application that does all the optimizations for you in one go:
You can upload images, give it a URL or use smushit as a Firefox extension or bookmarklet. Smushit will show you how many bytes you can save by removing cruft from the images and gives you all the images as a zip file to replace them on your site.
Here’s a video of Stoyan and Nicole presenting Smushit.com at The Ajax Experience in Boston (sorry about the audio):
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Appcelerator Named "Platinum Sponsor" of AJAX World RIA Conference …
Sys-Con Italia (Comunicati Stampa) - The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich AJAX and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a unique Web Expression Language … |
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AJAX for Cloud Computing
SYS-CON Media, NJ - But what are the technical issues for building AJAX applications in the cloud? What is the most productive way to build AJAX applications for deployment to … |
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Zapatec Introduces Enterprise-Grade Open Source E-Mail, Calendar …
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 6zap is a single-page AJAX application that provides users with full-featured e-mail, calendar and contact interfaces that have a familiar look and feel, … |
BigTarget.js is a new little jQuery plugin that makes bigger targets for users:
Wrapping a single anchor around the whole content (title, thumbnail, summary) is a bad idea as it’s not standards compliant and renders the page invalid. So I turned to my good friend jQuery and threw together the following plugin using the ‘Learning jQuery’ plugin development pattern.
The concept is simple:
- Attach the plugin to any link in the content block.
- Pass through the click zone selector as a plugin option.
- The plugin then attaches
onclickand hover events to the click zone.- User clicks anywhere on the click zone.
- The original link
hrefis retrieved.- If the link has a
relattribute and it’s set to ‘external’, open the link target in a new window; otherwise open the link in the current browser window.
You can easily add this behaviour via the plugin:
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The Business Web 2.0
ZDNet UK, UK - BIZ, read my take on the role Web 2.0 technologies can play helping businesses to grow. Social networking site Uber.com closed its doors yesterday after … |