We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness. We messed up the other week though when we linked to his work on a scrolling coke can. I do these postings as a labor of love, and since Ajaxian isn’t my day [...]

A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc).
Well, they may not have been in a pub…. but [...]

SVG-Edit is a nifty open source editing web app that uses SVG and doesn’t need a server-side:

The SVG-Edit team recently announced SVG-Edit 2.4, code named Arbelos. New features include:
- Raster Images
- Group/Ungroup
- Zoom
- Layers
- Curved Paths
- UI Localization
- Wireframe Mode
- Change Background
- Draggable Dialogs
- Resizable UI (SVG icons)
- Convert Shapes to Path
Try out the demo [...]

The Ample SDK, a unique GUI toolkit working to create a cross-browser abstraction backed by open standards, has gone open source! With the new 0.8.9 release the GUI framework is now an open-source project licensed under GPL/MIT and hosted on GitHub.
More about the Ample SDK:
The Ample SDK makes it easy to create interactive vector graphics [...]

The final registration for the SVG Open 2009 conference is coming up the end of this month! Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, is an open, browser-based standard that makes it easy to create interactive web graphics. SVG is great as it’s part of the HTML 5 family of technologies while being search engine friendly; easy [...]

The team behind AppJet and the successful EtherPad have announced that they are discontinuing the hosting of AppJet applications. This is a shame, as the server side JavaScript programming module makes writing certain back ends a breeze, as they showed with EtherPad itself!
I hope that it will rise again, just as I hope that Concorde [...]

Cool things are finally happening with SVG these days. It’s showing up natively in browsers (including Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and more). It’s natively supported on the iPhone, and work is happening in various open source communities to create options for Internet Explorer. Google uses it under the covers in Google Maps (to create vector [...]

It is great to see when traditional media takes on some of the ideas we got to understand as de-facto standards in the new media world. One of the things that until a few years ago was unthinkable is to allow third parties to display your precious data.
This has changed now and more and [...]

Aptana has put out their first beta release of ActiveRecord.js. The details according to Ryan Johnson, a developer at Aptana:
ActiveRecord.js is an open source object relational mapper (ORM) that supports multiple JavaScript environments, including:

Google Gears (client-side persistence)
In Memory (if no SQL server is available on the client)
Adobe AIR (client-side persistence)
SQLite and MySQL (via Aptana Jaxer, [...]

Today, we are really excited to be able to announce a big personal change. Ben and I are joining forces, full time, for the first time. What are we doing? We are joining Mozilla to create a new group with the charter to create developer tools for the Open Web.
Mozilla is placing a big [...]