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More Dynamic Web | February 28, 2005

More on dynamic web apps: I've started playing around with Firefox's built in XSLT engine and Sarissa, which - yet again - I found through O'Reilly Network. Sarissa is a nice wrapper which abstracts the dirty details of cross-browser coding and lets you get on with what you actually want to do ("only" Mozilla and IE are currently supported though). You can see my first simplistic experimentation with the code here (and if someone can tell me why this isn't working cleanly in IE, please drop me a line). This page demonstrates the use of the XMLHttpRequest object to pull in a chunk of XML, dynamically transform it into XHTML and inject it into the page using DOM.
Jon Udell has also been writing about all this new-fangled stuff...

Posted at 09:34 PM CET

Very Dynamic Web Interfaces | February 10, 2005

Following GMail, Google Suggest and Google Maps Drew McLellan has done a nice writeup on O'Reilly Network explaining one of the basic concepts behind this new breed of web application. This approach to implementing the client side is a further step towards blurring the line between classic desktop CS applications and web applications - at least from a user experience point of view. People are going to find many cool things they can do with this. I've put the code for the basic example together here if you'd like to try it out.

Posted at 06:17 PM CET