Who’d a thunk it: CSSHttpRequest is a way of doing cross-domain AJAX by using CSS’ @import method to fetch the data.

Posted October 27, 2008 by Casey
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Google Gears: create web apps that work offline
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Posted June 19, 2007 by Casey Bisson
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Matty discovered jQuery at The Ajax Experience, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me.
jQuery makes coding JavaScript fun again. Well, at least it makes it possible to write code and content separately. And that means that sweet AJAXy pages can be made more easily, and it sort of forces designers to make them accessible [...]

Posted January 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: ajax, javascript, jquery, matt batchelder. One Comment.

Ryan Eby gets excited over LiveSearch. And who can blame him? I mention the preceding because it explains the following: two links leading to some good examples of livesearch in the wild.
Inquisitor is a livesearch plugin for OS X’s Safari web browser. It gives the top few hits, spelling suggestions where appropriate, and links to [...]

Posted December 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ahah, ajax, javascript, libraries, library, live, live search, livesearch, search, web, web applications. 2 Comments.

Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies).
Go ahead, watch the Flash-based demo or kick the tires with their hosted demo. I think you’ll agree that it looks better than anything else we’ve seen yet. Part of [...]

Posted November 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ajax, calendaring, collaboration, communication, communication model, demo, email, enterprise, groupware, groupware collaboration, mail, mailboxes, spam management, unified messaging, web 2.0, zimbra. One Comment.

Top 10 Ajax Applications at A Venture Forth.
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Posted October 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
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I have plans to apply AJAX to our library catalog but I’m running into a problem where I can’t do XMLHttpRequest events to servers other than the one I loaded the main webpage from. Mozilla calls it the “same origin policy,” everyone else calls it a cross-domain script exclusion, or something like that.
Some Mozilla folks [...]

Posted September 19, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ajax, apple, browser security, browsers, cross domain, cross domain script exclusion, frustration, iframe, javascript, mozilla, remote scripting, web application, web applications, xdomain, xmlhttprequest. 5 Comments.