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The Future Ajax Wrapper

8 April 2008

With IE8’s new XDomainRequest feature, a new API is added for cross-site requests, instead of using the W3C cross-site access proposal. Just for fun, I thought I would provide a little glimpse of what the classic Ajax request wrapper function may look like for the next era of web developers. Just a few simple calls […]

Static JSON with Callback

1 April 2008

JSONP has become a well known technique for loading JSON data from other sites. JSONP defines that a parameter should name a callback function to be called from the script returned from the web service provider. Yahoo, Flickr, and many other public web services provide some form of JSONP with their web services. However, there […]

HTTP as the Basis for Comet

15 February 2008

Michael Carter wrote: 
“In short, it makes strategic sense for the Comet standard to closely resemble and interoperate with current standards. We want to be saying, “But Comet is basically HTTP, not some new, strange standard.” Then we’ll have a much easier time gaining widespread adoption.”
I couldn’t agree more!

The Next Great Protocol: HTTP

12 February 2008

I suppose this post would be more prophetic a decade or two ago. It was in the 90’s that the HTTP protocol really became the Great protocol. It is foundation of the World Wide Web, and is language on which browsers were able to really open the doorway to the Internet for us. So am […]

What Makes a Good Web Framework

7 February 2008

A friend recently asked me if there are any server side or web frameworks I like besides the one I developed, Persevere. I have been critical of a number of frameworks, but I think it worth articulating what I don’t like about many frameworks, because there are many out there that I believe are good.
One […]

A Standards Based Technique for Batching Ajax Requests

3 January 2008

 
A little off the topic of JSON, but I recently wrote an article for Comet Daily that was a proposal for a standards based approach to comet communication. One of the key components of the proposal that made it go, was the mechanism for using standards to coherently subscribe and respond to multiple resources. By […]