Monthly Archives: January 2007

Article about Event-Driven Web Application Design at YUI

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Christian Heilmann writes an interesting article about Event Driven Web Application Design over Yahoo UI. Christian starts the article with something I totally agree with:

Frontend engineering rocks right now. The era of boring web sites is over and we’re all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application.

Aye! I feel lucky working with developing interfaces for the web right now, it is a very interesting time. One problem as I see it is that some people in IT-organisations still tends to minimize the efforts needed for creating rich interfaces for the web. We need more advocates to raise the status of our profession and we need more professional articles like this.

Geni Launches new Socianet

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I think LinkedIn is a very addicitive and playful implementation of professional social networking

And now Geni launches relation networking. I just started out and I think they have made an excellent job in implementing this, even my not-so-tech-savvy-father and alikes around the world will enjoy and play with this, making this the fastest growing Socianet ever (my prediction).

And the interaction on this socianet is amazing. I do not even remember how I signed up, it was a transparent signup process.

We will hear more from Geni.

Interface plugin for jQuery updated at last

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Prototype has script.aculo.us and it looked like jquery should have Interface, but somewhere it stopped updating and the documentation was not as comprehensive as one could wish. Now version 1.1 of Interface for jQuery is released the same week as jQuery releases 1.1. The Changelog for Interface a couple of new plugins, Improved documentation and a lot of bug fixes for existing plugins. I will give it a try and if it works well I probably get a new argument for trying Interface for my richer interfaces. One thing that is true for this plugin-package is that the authors Stefan Petre and Paul Bakaus are two productive guys.

DomQuery is extremely fast

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Jack Slocum who manages a great extension library for Yahoo! UI has released is working on a new library for CSS/XPath selection of the DOM named DomQuery. The first figures says it is fast, extremely fast.

To make it even more interesting, jQuery has released a new version of the library where api-size and speed has been the main focuses, but it still doesnt match DomQuerys speed. DomQuery made me start looking into Yahoo UI. Its a good competition benefitting all of us working with interface development. I am sure the jQuery community will make the best out of this competition. There is already a debate between John Resig and Jack Slocum about the results and how to interpret them.