When I heard news that Google was to release a spreadsheet companion to their freshly bought Writely web-based word processing app, I got excited about all the things they could do to make it more than just a copy of Numsum. Let’s face it, Google’s the Gorilla in the room here and they’re gonna squash [...]

Posted June 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: google, google spreadsheets, office application, office software, spreadsheet, spreadsheet 2.0, url-addressable, web 2.0, web application, web20, webapp. 8 Comments.

New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
cms, opensource cms, web application, mooflex, ajaxian, content management system

Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: ajaxian, cms, content management system, mooflex, opensource cms, web application. One Comment.

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.