The unforeseen war (if there is one!) between Flex/Flash lovers and Ajax lovers are still flaming up. Personally, I love both! Ajax and Flash. Another article had ccme up but this time is between Flash and Gaia.
7 reasons not to consider using Adobe Flex [and how Gaia compares]
However, code zen responded to that article here.
Google officially announced that GWT1.4 is no longer beta. As the final version of GWT1.4 has been released. Google has information of what’s new on this release.
Here’s a broad overview of the major enhancements:
– New widgets and libraries
– RichTextArea, HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel, SuggestBox, DisclosurePanel, PushButton, ToggleButton, and an enhanced Image widget make advanced applications easier than ever.
– ImageBundle automatically consolidates multiple images into a single HTTP request.
– NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat make easy work of complex internationalization and localization.
– You can finally use java.lang.Serializable with GWT RPC, and the GWT RPC server-side subsystem is no longer intimately tied to servlets. You can easily wire it into any Java back-end infrastructure. Spring fans, rejoice.
– A new JUnit-based benchmarking subsystem makes measuring and comparing the speed of code snippets as easy as writing unit tests.
New deployment options and optimizations
– Adding GWT modules to an HTML page is now simple: just add a <script> tag.
– You can now include GWT modules across domains. Note that including scripts from other sites that you don’t fully trust is a big security risk.
– External JavaScript files referenced from your GWT module load synchronously now, so script ready-functions are no longer needed.
– Auto-generated RPC whitelist files are now produced during compilation to help catch accidentally responding with objects that compiled GWT client code wouldn’t be able to deserialize.
– The GWT distribution now includes a DTD for the GWT module XML format, making it easier to configure modules in an DTD-aware XML editor.
This will help understanding Mashups
More and more comparisons… this time from Plugin to Shout blog. Here is the comparison.
New article posted in AjaxWorld by Ric Smith which talks about RIAs and what are they good for and why Ajax still growing despite the strength of Flash and Silverlight. Read here.
Facebook’s main page source code has been leaked. The source code is now available in Facebook Secrets blog. The blog has been created only for that purpose and seems there is no info available on how the source code leaked.
Stefan Mischook on his blog KillerBlog writes his thoughts on Why Ruby will not kill PHP on. His article “Will Ruby kill PHP?” explains that on detail.
A new article in Yahoo development network about how to speed up your website. The article “Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site” shows how to enhance the performance of your website using the followings:
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put CSS at the Top
6. Move Scripts to the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags
“10 Designer’s Checkpoints To Be Aware Of” is hell of a great article posted in Smashing Magazine for web developers. It is about tools designers should be aware of. It is about analysing and automatic checks for websites.
