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Google Now Indexes Content Behind JavaScript and AJAX

Google is now confirming what people were already seeing, it is now indexing Facebook comments. In fact, that's not even half of it, it is now indexing a lot of content that is hidden away behind JavaScript and AJAX.This means that Google is able to to index comments made via Facebook Comments, Disqus and other ...

2 November 2011
06:21 GMT

You Can Now Customize Blogger's HTML5 and CSS3-powered Dynamic Views

A few weeks ago, Blogger debuted the very slick and modern Dynamic Views templates. Built on HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX, they do a lot to improve the look and feel of the oldest blogging platform.But, like with any new technology, there were limitations and some bugs. The big issues were fixed early, now Blogger is working...

26 October 2011
04:15 GMT

Google May Have Updated Its AJAX-Crawling Capabilities

Search engines have come a long way since the early days of AltaVista. The issues Google, Yahoo and Microsoft tackle these days are very complex in some instances, yet one problem has lingered as technology progressed. In fact, it's precisely because technology progresses that search engines have this problem. ...

29 January 2010
09:03 GMT

Evolved Bing Maps Hits RTW

The latest iteration of Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform needed less than two months in the baking oven as a Beta test release. Introduced at the start of December 2009, the Silverlight-based flavor of Bing Maps has now graduated from Beta stage and was released to web. Chris Pendleton, the Bin...

20 January 2010
08:51 GMT

Microsoft AJAX CDN Now SSL Enabled

Following the mid-September launch of the Microsoft Ajax CDN (Content Delivery Network), the Redmond company promised that it would be adding support for Secure Sockets Layer in the future. At the end of November, the software giant managed to deliver on that promise, and now the Microsoft AJAX CDN service provided b...

2 December 2009
04:28 GMT

Doloto AJAX App Optimization Tool Available for Download

With Doloto, Microsoft is offering web developers a tool designed to increase the performance of complex web 2.0 websites which contain a lot of code. Available through MSDN DevLabs, Doloto is advertised as a download time optimizer for web 2.0 applications. Essentially, Microsoft is describing the release as an AJAX...

7 September 2009
10:25 GMT

Try Out Google's New AJAX Search

For Google every millisecond counts. This is true for all its products but it's especially important for its search engine. While some would argue that today's search engines are already too fast for any improvement to be noticeable, it hasn't stopped any of them from constantly making speed-related ch...

31 August 2009
06:34 GMT

W3C Issues New Draft for XMLHttpRequest Specifications

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Applications Working Group has published updates to the Working Draft in XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest Level 2. These specifications govern the way interactive web applications are handled by developers and offer the basic API documentation for programmers wanting to spice ...

26 August 2009
05:38 GMT

Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom Composer Updated

An updated version of the Deep Zoom Composer for Silverlight 2 is available for download since the end of the past week. Microsoft's Janete Kirupa revealed that the focus of the update was to deliver fixes for the bugs reported via user feedback. At the same time, the update, which went live on December 19, fixe...

22 December 2008
14:41 GMT

Deep Zoom Comes to the iPhone via Seadragon Mobile

Microsoft is taking to the next level the way that iPhone users can handle giga-pixel images on their devices. In this regard, at the end of the past week, the Redmond company produced a mobile version of Seadragon, aimed exclusively at Apple's iPhone. Made available for download through the iTunes App Store, Se...

15 December 2008
07:19 GMT

Seadragon Ajax, Deep Zoom Beyond Silverlight

Via Seadragon Ajax, Microsoft is streamlining the usage and adoption of its Deep Zoom technology. When it comes down to digital images, Microsoft's Deep Zoom is designed to permit a focus on details like no other feature. Users are able to easily explore, zoom, and pan digital photographs, even gigapixel images,...

25 November 2008
07:30 GMT

AJAX Evolution in Internet Explorer 8

The evolution of IE from Internet Explorer 7 to Internet Explorer 8 spans from the graphical user interface on the surface of the browser to the underlying rendering engine. Among the various  improvements delivered to Internet Explorer, enhancing AJAX in the browser is an illustrative example of Microsoft'...

7 October 2008
09:45 GMT

Google Offers Geo-Location APIs to Web and Mobile Developers

Google has released two APIs to enhance geo-location. One is AJAX-based and the other one makes use of the Gears browser extension. This enables web and mobile developers to easily distribute content or to authenticate users based on location.The AJAX API determines the location of a user based on their IP address. I...

25 August 2008
04:16 GMT

WaveMaker Offers WYSIWYG Ajax Development

Guided by a "point and click" approach to development of Web 2.0 applications, WaveMaker released on Monday the Visual Ajax Studio 4.0. This is a development tool that requires close to no Ajax-specific programming knowledge. The platform provides the basic features under a GNU AGPL version 3 license and additional f...

19 August 2008
05:56 GMT

IE8 Takes AJAX Navigation to the Next Level

One of the aspects of Internet Explorer that evolved with the introduction of IE 8 Beta 1 is related to AJAX navigation. This is because of Microsoft's commitment to aligning IE with the latest versions of modern web standards. In this context, in its default standards rendering mode, IE8, even as early as Beta ...

15 July 2008
07:01 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 Cross Domain Capabilities Are Stuck

Internet Explorer 8 cross domain capabilities are stuck, at least for the time being, with XDomainRequest. Microsoft is, of course, hard at work hammering on the Beta 2 for IE8, but also on expanding the cross domain scenarios that the browser will allow for AJAX developers. With Beta 1, Internet Explorer 8 delivers ...

24 June 2008
06:32 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 HTML 5.0 Mashups

With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft is taking its proprietary IE browser into the territory of HTML 5.0. Not at the same level as Safari 3 or Firefox 3.0/3.1, but the Redmond company will offer support for HTML 5.0, limited as it may be. One illustrative example of HTML 5.0 integration into Internet Explorer 8 is cro...

20 May 2008
05:52 GMT

Skyfire Browser to Bring Real Web Experience on Mobiles, for Free!

Skyfire Labs, Inc. announced at the DEMO 08 conference the release of the Skyfire mobile browser, set to bring the real PC web experience on mobile phones. The new browser will allow smartphone users to interact with basically any Web page that integrates any Web technology, including advanced Ajax, dynamic Flash, J...

29 January 2008
04:56 GMT

New Gmail for the iPhone Released!

Google's push into the Mobile world has had people wonder at one point last year whether their product will be a handheld device or an operating system. I guess that waiting a while before taking sides or betting for or against one of the two paid off and now, it's well known what the future will hold. Not ...

15 January 2008
13:51 GMT

Short Introduction to AJAX

AJAX is a web development technique (not a new programming language) that allows you to create faster and more user friendly web applications. AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. It changes the way a web page is processed on client side using server side information. Practically, AJAX combines many exi...

17 December 2007
13:21 GMT

Download Ajax View to Monitor JavaScript in IE7

The Ajax View JavaScript Instrumentation Proxy is the end result of the work from Microsoft Research. Essentially the tool is designed to act as a HTTP proxy focused on monitoring the performance and behavior of JavaScript applications within Internet Explorer 7, although Ajax View is not limited to just Microsoft�...

31 August 2007
05:39 GMT

SoonR Announces Support for Nokia AJAX-Enabled Browser

SoonR has just announced support for Nokia's AJAX enabled browser available in all S60 3rd Edition devices. Both SoonR and Nokia are industry leaders in utilizing AJAX to improve the mobile experience. AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), a Web development technique, improves users' mobile web experience...

18 April 2007
09:40 GMT

Openwave Announces Mobile Widget Solution

Openwave Systems announced the Openwave Mobile Widget solution, designed to simplify access to and discovery of highly personalized content. The AJAX-based solution, based on the Openwave MIDAS application development environment, enables mobile widgets to be integrated directly into the mobile device's idle scr...

2 April 2007
09:04 GMT


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