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Seamlessly manage project files, documents and project data with CASE Spec’s integrated document management system. and more text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/flex-as-web-portals.html Ajax is a revolutionary programming technique that is not exempted from competition in terms of developing RIA. Although Ajax is virtually an open source programming technique there are licensed alternatives that could be used by developers to provide the same, client-side interaction with a few deviation. One of those competitors is Flex. Developed by Adobe, this type of client side application use the powerful Flash that should be installed in the local to properly implement online applications. This type of programming technique uses Flash, HTML and different data mark-up tools. Although it is almost the same compared to text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/improving-browser-experience-through-redshift.html The popularity of JavaScript is now more than five years since Ajax was introduced. As the main programming language for Ajax, developers would have to learn JavaScript or else learn to build an Ajax based application with the help of frameworks. Although frameworks could provide the expected functions without learning JavaScript, the preset functions of frameworks considerably limits the ability of the developer to be creative in building an Ajax based applications. There are frameworks that provides an almost unlimited options for customization, but it is still different when developing an Ajax based application by coding text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/unobtrusive-ajax.html Ajax has been developed for many years and its current status is way better when it was introduced in 2005. But there still exists that developers would have to face in developing an Ajax based application. Among the challenges for developers is on how to properly implement unobtrusive Ajax. The importance of using unobtrusive Ajax has been highlighted for some time now. By implementing unobtrusive Ajax, developers would be able to build Ajax based applications that are better performing, secured as well as user friendly. By removing the clutters, developers should be able to have a powerful Ajax based application. text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/xslt-as-alternative-to-xhr.html XSLT or Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation has been used by developers for nearly 10 years. This transformer for XML has been very effective on its function that version 1.0 is still used until today - even with the presence of version 2.0. Although version 2.0 is a lot superior compared to the original developers have opted to use the earlier version if they wanted to implement simpler websites. With the popularity of Ajax based online applications, XSLT has taken a new function for developers. The function has become a transformer for XML files for JavaScript. Unfortunately, there are browsers that are unable to text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/using-webkit-in-iphone.html When iPhone was released a few years ago, the world of mobile technology practically stood still and watched how iPhone become the signal for next generation form of mobile phones. Fans and even antagonists of Apple have come out and praised the company for coming out with this innovative product. Although iPhone do not have the usual hard drive that could let you store thousands of songs it now has the touch screen capabilities that only a handful of companies have thought of. Today, it is one of revolutionary inventions of the new century. But for developers, the fun only started this year when Apple finally allowed develop text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/javascript-event-delay.html JavaScript is one of the few programming languages that allow developers to delay functions and events. The commands that delay functions and events are functions that wait for the input of the user. The delay commands will let different functions and even local configurations (such as local file association) to execute before the client side interaction starts. It is a very simple code that uses “setTimeout” as its basic command for proper execution. The commands that deal with function delays have already been extensively discussed but the delay in terms of events were not extensively covered. text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/developing-enterprise-mashups.html Mashup represents the future of web and applications development. Mashup has been the subject of many discussions since it has become the ideal way of developing an application. Instead of using one programming language to develop a website or application, they use two or more programming languages. The increasing demands of customers and clients push developers to look for other functions just to achieve the expected performance. Mashup is achieved by combining two or more programming languages especially when an API of a popular function is available. API could be added to the existing application text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/guid-for-javascript.html Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is used by developers in websites to generate unique IDs which will increase the security of the website as well as its users. With the help of GUID developers are assured that their online applications are safe as no two identifiers will end up being identical. It is a very simple idea developed by Microsoft which became a basic standard for security measures. GUID uses complex algorithms which increases the difficulty of attacking the application. A developer could build and integrate this small application in a website and build a highly effective application. This could be integrated in a text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/adobe-releases-another-ajax-competitor-17097.html Adobe has been riding the waves of popularity in RIA through FLEX and Adobe AIR. The former is a direct alternative to Ajax as it replaces Flash instead of JavaScript while Adobe AIR is aimed for those who are looking for an efficient RIA. But none of these products were able to dent the popularity of Ajax. From the mere fact that Ajax is an open-source programming language to the additional complexity and less user support, these programming languages that are aimed to build an efficient RIA is not as powerful when compared to an Ajax based application. But Adobe is not going to let this go down without a fight. Even though text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/wtframework-for-easy-framework-detection.html You were lazily browsing through different websites when you suddenly bumped into a simple yet cool Ajax based application. You were intrigued with the functions and the almost flawless rendering of the application. Knowing that you bumped into something good enough to be emulated, you start to figure out how they were able to build the highly efficient application. But doing this manually could take a lot of time and the result is not even the same, using applications that will show you the script will never help especially when the application is built with the use of an Ajax based framework. A good text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/introducing-etherpad.html Developing an Ajax or JavaScript based application will often make it difficult to handle for a lone developer. Collaboration between developers often happens so that application development could be faster. This will also ensure quality of the coding since each developer will have to check each other’s work to ensure that the application will be released with the fewest bugs possible. But it is often a challenge for developers who wanted to collaborate when each developer are not in the same location. They could still collaborate on a project but they are not able to collaborate in real text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/achieving-script-maintainability.html Script maintainability in JavaScript is a very elusive task for developers for two reasons: • Humans will always be looking for ways to bend the rules and; • JavaScript could be configured in many forms. Developers that are aiming to maintain a good script is often faced with the challenge since developers do not really have to follow the specific scripting to render a webpage. JavaScript is a “free for all” programming language that almost anything could be configured without following a specific script. Browsers just follow a certain formula for JavaScript that as long as text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/ajax-conquering-mobile-crm.html Ajax has certainly changed the way users experience the internet. From simple HTML based websites wherein information is only collected and displayed to powerful Ajax based websites that has virtually transformed the browser to desktop application. Browser has become a platform for different online application that could easily render the desktop application worthless if the internet connection is consistent and the application host would provide the same consistently. After changing the way user experience the internet, Ajax developers have set their sights to another platform that would certainly be challenging: mobile text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/javascript-and-the-idea-of-mvc.html The internet started out with a simple HTML. Through HTML, developers are able to build websites to be informative. The internet was then used for gathering and sharing information. Simple applications could be integrated with HTML but there are limiting factors that were proven to be the disadvantage of HTML. Among the disadvantage of HTML is the inability to do real time updates for the user. HTML has to be continuously clicked on so that new information will be possible. Page reloading is also one of the disadvantages of HTML. The user will have to completely reload the webpage before new data could text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/binding-functions-to-frameworks.html Frameworks have practically reduced Ajax into a simple programming technique. Through frameworks, developers are able to build highly efficient Ajax based applications without have to learn or write a single JavaScript line. All they have to do is to effectively bind the data to the different functions so that they are able to effectively launch the application. There are frameworks that use drag and drop functionality wherein different functions and even the interface of the application could be configured. There are even frameworks that allow non-developers to build an Ajax based application. Even though Ajax frameworks text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/getting-the-best-out-of-server-side-ajax.html Ajax has always been thought of as a client-side programming technique. Developers of Ajax are now able to build highly effective Ajax based applications by loading every component on the client side. The efficiency of the application is based on the ability of the browser or the client side to handle the components of the Ajax based application. That means the local gadget has a factor in properly executing the Ajax based application. The developers are able to build demanding applications because they are confident that gadgets are able to handle the load. Although today's gadgets have the ability to text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/google-chromium-for-chrome-browser.html A few months ago, Google released their browser and called it Chrome. Like most new things established (or acquired) by Google, it has been scrutinized inside and out by tech bloggers. Although it did not have any record breaking downloads, it did have a good following especially those that are faithful for Google. Of course, one of the distinguishing features of Chrome is that the services of Google will run faster. If you have tried running Chrome, you will notice that it is lightning fast...really fast when you are trying to run Google's services such as Gmail, Blogger, Google News or Google Talk text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/browser-desktops.html What Happened to Browser Desktops? When Ajax was launched in 2005, certain innovations were put forward to test the capabilities of this new programming technique. text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/sun-javafx-unleashed.html After years and years of waiting, Sun has finally unleashed their RIA counterpart, JavaFX. Touted as Java's answer to Ajax, Silverlight and FLEX, JavaFX will be able to build powerful applications that should also assure seamless flow data and interface. Before Ajax, Sun was the giant in RIA because of their Java. Developers will be able to build RIA with the help of Java and launch them online without any problem. But unlike JavaScript, and much the same with Flash, users have to download a client before any of these is possible. Yes, the application should be able to provide RIA but they still need Java and Flash in their text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/javascript-on-pdf.html JavaScript has ushered the next wave of online applications. Through Ajax, JavaScript is able to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA) without prior download requirements from its users. As an online application, JavaScript becomes the tool of highly portable applications and through Ajax, online interaction is more than just HTML based document viewer. Your browser has become your platform for different online applications. This programming language has always been in connection with the browser. Although applications that are based in JavaScript are possible, implementing JavaScript in other platforms has been a little text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/cappuccino-0.6-framework.html The frameworks that you will find today are usually the “surviving frameworks”. Eventually after Ajax was first offered, hundreds of frameworks became available online. Each of these frameworks is vying to be something big because of the apparent niche offered by Ajax. But just like most competitions, there are winners and losers. The winners go on to become a powerful framework with developers actively working on the Ajax tool. Those that are unfortunate to gain support and acknowledgement are just left hanging without any update in mind. But that does not mean that new frameworks are never released. There are still a few frameworks that are being releas text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/the-challenge-of-joining-soa-to-ria.html SOA or Service Oriented Architecture is always the standard for development in build applications that are geared towards businesses. SOA ensure that the application will work according to the parameters set by businesses. The application might be simplified but it will work according to the business plan. SOA is geared towards proper business processes and the users of application build with SOA will have to spend some time learning the application so that they would be functional and highly efficient. This is especially true when dealing with online applications since businesses have to work in real time and they have text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/changing-css-of-ria.html The latest release of CSS has started a little debate online. CSS3 is currently under development by W3C wherein development is geared towards more adaptability to other programming language. When CSS was first released in 1996, it was during the time when HTML is king – this programming language has practically suggested everything that will happen online. Although there are a few contenders such as Flash, Java, PHP etc, not of them could suggest a behavior online like HTML. Basically the success of HTML during that time was partly because of CSS. This tool when added in HTML added the needed functions in order for data to be manipulated text/html http://www.itquestionbank.com ITQuestionBank http://www.itquestionbank.com/page-refreshers-for-consistent-page-updates.html Page refreshers is one of the few features of an Ajax based application that is met with disappointment as well as approval. Disappointment because there are certain functions that are overlooked by page refreshers, but they also place a stamp of approval to page refreshers because Ajax has enabled page refreshing without changing the webpage. The result is a highly interactive website. This feature has actually ushered a lot of online tools which means the required application for local gadgets is no longer necessary. Connection to the internet is more than enough to fulfill the needed functions of users.