Category Archives: WEB 2.0

All about web 2.0 developement

IBM Rational EGL : Simplified Web 2.0 development

Web 2.0 and RIA provide next generation of web applications. These applications have following properties-

Capabilities of a desktop application with manageibility of web applications
mash related data from different sources
Focus on client side processing
Simple but powerful interfaces
Collaborative

Why it is difficult to develop web 2.0 application?

Complex technologies involved like SOAP, JSON, Javascript, Ajax etc.
Most tools and solutions [...]

Also posted in AJAX, javascript | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Client Side Storage/Persistence

Why client side persistence ?
Web vs Desktop: Desktop allows a lot of options to store data on the client side as it allows us to access information from local files. But the web has a limitation in that respect. Wen do allow some mechanisms to store and load data locally one of them is cookies.
What [...]

Also posted in html, javascript | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Getting iFrame’s Body content on IE and Firefox

A few days back i was working on a  problem for which i had to read contents from a body tag of an iframe. I tried the normal code which any developer will use :

var bodyContent=window.frames[’frameName’].document.body.innerHTML;

To my surprise it was not cross browser compatible.
It didn’t work on both IE and Firefox.
After googling i figured it [...]

Also posted in javascript | Tagged | Leave a comment

Enable bookmarking and back button in ajax applications

One of the problems when using AJAX in an application is that we cannot bookmark pages and we cannot use browser’s back button. I have developed lot of application based on Ajax and faced this problem myself.
This problem exists even in Gmail , Google Maps etc.
I came  across a solution which can solve bookmarking and [...]

Also posted in AJAX, Uncategorized, javascript | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

jQuery Tools - Explored

jQuery Tools gives you tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those “web 2.0″ goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites.
This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, [...]

Also posted in Uncategorized, javascript | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

robot.txt - guiding the crawler

Robot.txt is meant for crawler and spiders. Using robot.txt web masters can guide and instruct crawler to specific areas of the website. Web masters can disallow crawler’s access to certain pages and folders of the website. One can also specify the crawl speed with which a crawler can index the site.

“Robot.txt is placed at [...]

Also posted in SEO | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

TWEET - Best jQuery plugin for Twitter

I searched the internet for jQuery plugin which can get me twitter feeds in an onobstructive and simplistic manner.I found jTwitter and TWEET and few others. I compared these two plugins and concluded that TWEET is the best. The ease of integration and the supplementary which one gets is awesome.
Download TWEET
Download jQuery
How to use it?
1) [...]

Also posted in javascript | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

mParallax - A visual treat

I just came across mParallax built by Piksite team. It was a visual delight as i saw the demo of the image at mParallax’s home page. The parachute and the moving sky gave a nice feeling before my developer instincts took over and i was forced to think about the implementation part.
It felt like this [...]

Also posted in javascript | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Script for allowing only numeric characters in a Textbox

Every javascript programmer comes across the client side validations where he has to restrict user inputs depending on the requirement.
Yesterday i came along an issue where i required only numeric input for the textbox.
So i wrote a script which allowed me to enter only digits in a text field.
Here’s my script snippet.

<input onkeypress="return validateNumericCharacter();" name="zipCode" [...]

Also posted in javascript | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Ubiquity Mashups - A mesmerising browsing experience

I was browsing net when i came across mozilla lab’s new mashup product “UBIQUITY“. I saw the demo video and was left wondering how this extension will change the way we browse the web.
Suppose a user want to invite his friend for a breakfast at a restaurant. So he will find out the location using [...]

Posted in WEB 2.0 | Tagged , , | Leave a comment