With the develpment in CMS area, there is all the more push in the market for websites to move to a CMS system, large or small, to manage their content. As a result there are lots of new initiatives for grounds-up CMS implementation. Usually, a CMS product starts with HTML a set of HTML mock-ups …
Mar
06
IE6 Countdown: Right time for Browser Standards
Its good to see world is ready to move on from Internet Explorer 6. Here is a snippet from IE6 count down site: 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. This website …
Mar
05
Write Once, use everywhere? Content Vs Code
One of the thumb rule for any CMS system is: Have just one instance of the content and define templates/components/modules/elements to render it differently So, Why the same rule doesn’t apply for code written to define styles, javascript functionality across browsers? Let me take an example from one of my recent project: As per requirements, …
May
28
JAX India 2007: Day 1: Web2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !
Its been an exciting day on the inaugural day of JAX India 2007. The day was meant for workshops and I attended half a day workshop on “Web 2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !” by Craig R McClanahan. Here is extract from the session: The session covered from history of web …
May
17
Is Ajax making sites less reachable?
We have been talking about Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies for sometime now. At one end Ajax becoming an asset from usability point of view but on the other hand it is making sites less search engine friendly. Search engines for now are not intelligent enough to make a server side request and retrieve the …
May
02
Another Collaboration Feature: Google’s Gadget
Here is another Collaboration Feature from Google. Google has introduced a new Gadget maker product for iGoogle (new name for Google Personalized Homepage). The users without having any programming or web design experience can create Gadgets and share with community or other iGoogle user. The Gadgets are as simple as filling out the form in …
Apr
13
Web Applications to be available offline
Off late there has been lot of web sites that I came across which are trying to provide offline access for their Web applications. The basic idea is that the application can be worked with in a browser offline and automatically sync up whenever you get online. Scrybe is one such online/offline calender and organizer …
Mar
22
Catchup with Open Ajax Project
Open Ajax Project or better known as Open Ajax Alliance has added many more members to their alliance. The biggest name to add to the list is Microsoft. This makes a total count of 73 members working towards Ajax Globalization. Alliance has come up with the term called “OpenAjax Conformance” which defines a set of …
Feb
19
Ajax – Looking back at year’s old journey
Ajax has come a long way in a year’s time. Last year around this time, we first heard about it. Ajax had brought about the a big difference in web applications which largely changed usability arena. Web Applications started looking like rich desktop applications. Let’s look at its journey from rebirth.
Jan
19
Ajax Implementation – An Example
In my earlier post, “Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability?“, I highlighted that best bet for the existing sites is to start small may be including an ajax based components or use ajax to validate form fields etc. Here is one of the example.
