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How to do progressive enhancement, until the tools do it for you

Posted under General by Travis Wilson on Monday April 11 2005 @ 01:46AM PDT
I've been hearing a bit about the design pattern of progressive enhancement. Plenty agree that we should do it, but I haven't seen many annotated examples of how to pull it off. So I wrote this tutorial demonstrating how to add javascript without doing damage. Ironically, I hope that soon, javascript application developers won't need it. [...]
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I got your security right here

Posted under Wish List by Travis Wilson on Thursday March 31 2005 @ 05:05PM PST
A client is asking me to port a MS Access application to a secure client-server model on the net. Is the Ajax-enabled web browser the best place for client apps that need maximum security measures? [...]
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Two map sites that are better than Google

Posted under General by Travis Wilson on Friday March 25 2005 @ 02:19PM PST
Don't get me wrong; I think Google Maps is great. But here are two map applications that surpass it in many respects. Map of Switzerland (`http://map.search.ch/index.en.html`). This has been around at least since the launch of Google Maps. Their street map overlays an aerial photo of the land [...]
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Indirect stereotyping

Posted under General by Travis Wilson on Thursday March 24 2005 @ 01:38PM PST
Try this: Fire up that browser popularity contest winner Internet Explorer on Windows. Go into its advanced security settings, and disable ActiveX (a common practice for the security-conscious). Now browse maps.google.com . The zoom bar (vertical slider usually found to the left of the map) is gone! The site is essentially unusable. And Google was trying to cater to all browsers, too. Why does this happen? [...]
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Submit form without affecting browser history

Posted under Wish List by Travis Wilson on Monday March 21 2005 @ 06:35PM PST
Okay, I'll start. One Ajax design pattern I'd like to see supported goes as follows: I want to be able to submit a form from javascript without affecting my browser history. Forms are useful objects, well supported and manipulated by many third-party javascript libraries. Let's say you have a standard form on your page which will be used in an Ajax request, like so: [...]
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Anyone can post here

Posted under About this blog by Travis Wilson on Monday March 21 2005 @ 03:28PM PST
Full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, anyone can post here -- new threads as well as comments on existing threads. I suppose we'll require registration at some point in the future, but for now we want to hear what you think. Your triumphs and obstacles in Ajax work, what you'd build if you had your [...]
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A Call For Participation

Posted under Introduction by Travis Wilson on Monday March 21 2005 @ 01:33PM PST
Ajax is just what Jesse says it is: a collection of technologies. It's a particular way to implement the functionality -- the intent -- that I hope we define here over the coming weeks. But should we focus on the specific technology? [...]
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