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Chris Mills' thoughts on the web, music, life, and more

Posts tagged with "javascript"

DOM Assistant 2.6 released

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The delectable Mr Robert Nyman has released version 2.6 of his DOMAssistant library - see here for his introductory post about it, and here for the DOMAssistant 2.6 release notes. Spread the love kids.

2 more new articles on dev.opera.com - server-side capability detection for mobiles, and JSON for JavaScript configuration

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I got a couple of articles edited while I was supposed to be listening to speakers at the Opera engineering seminar (joke.)

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/json-configuration-for-javascript/ - written by UK-based web developer Gareth Rushgrove, this covers how to use JSON files to store your configuration details in, to make collaboration between developers and designers easier in a web team.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/server-side-capability-detection-for-mob/ - written by µFs guru and web developer extroadinaire Brian Suda, this article covers techniques for doing capability detection for mobile devices, for progressive enhancement and content customization purposes.

Enjoy!

@Media Ajax, London, November 19-20th 2007

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With Future of Mobile and a trip to the land of the Opera vikings behind me, I focused (in a zen, Yoda meets Gandhi kind of style) on my next prize - Patrick Griffiths and co's new Ajax focussed conference. It was interesting to see this, as I was kind of under the impression that the Ajax craze had died and gone to heaven a little while ago, and people were now focusing on actual real functionality as opposed to just buzzwords...but it seems I was wrong - I should have guessed after reading uncov ardently for the last few weeks.* ;-)

*Ok, I was feeling in a cynical mood today, and I'd just like to state that this should in no way reflect on the actual conference itself - it was really cool, and it is good to see some people really concentrating on fixing the issues we have with Ajax...but there are still some people that care more about the buzzwords and the zippy effects than the actual functionality and usability.

There was a lot of great content in this conference, and it seemed very nicely organized - what follows is a round up of the talks.

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