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JavaScript continues to get more talk on the server (yes, years after Netscape Enterprise Server!).
John Resig spent a weekend hacking in the zone, to bring the browser to the server.
This resulting environment allows you to do interesting things such as:
Screen scraping
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
 
load(”env.js”);
window.location = “http://alistapart.com/”;
window.onload = function(){
 load(”dist/jquery.js”);
 print(”Newest A List Apart Posts:”);
 $(”h4.title”).each(function(){
   print(” - ” + this.textContent);
 });
};
 
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As soon as Ajax took off, the community discussed how it was the nail in the coffin of the page view. Now, Nielsen/NetRatings agrees.
The AP article details two cases where this change in focus will provide a noticeable change in bigco rankings:
“Ranking top sites by total minutes instead of page views gives Time Warner Inc.’s [...]

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Responder is a programmer-friendly framework for unobtrusive JavaScript applications.
It’s a fast and intuitive way to define and encapsulate behaviours based on your HTML class structure that helps you understand your application better.
To use it you will need base2 and my responder script.
To create an in-place editor you would write something like:
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Responder.create(’editable’, {
 
  initialize: [...]

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Don’t pigeon-hole Brad with Dojo Offline. He also just announced Purple Include, which is a client-side JavaScript library that allows you to do client-side transclusions. What the heck is a transclusion I hear you say? “A transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another document by reference”.
This means that you can include [...]

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Tom Armitage has written a simple tool that is immediately useful to anyone working with CSS. The CSS Redundancy Checker is a Ruby script that will take CSS rules, and a set of HTML files, and will tell you what you aren’t actually using:
css-redundancy-checker.rb [cssfile] [directory of html files OR .txt file listing urls to [...]

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You’re understandably proud of your latest fancy Ajax interface, but is it wasting your app’s precious resources? In this article on Think Vitamin, Shanti Braford shows you five ways to make sure your Ajax is optimized.
He goes into detail on:
Optimal Database Indexing
Eliminate Redundant SQL Queries
Fragment Caching
Response Text Compression/Minimization
Pre-rendering and Client-side JavaScript Caching
You will note that [...]

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One of the subtle changes in Dojo 0.9 is that you won’t find your dojo.debug() friends. Instead, they have ported Firebug Lite and now you will be able to use the console.* goodness.
The article on this (over at SitePen) also discusses conditional logging and being able to:
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console.logIf( “api”,     “The call was returned”);
console.logIf( [...]

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John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:
I think we’ve seen the JavaScript language move through many individual phases:
The “We need scripting for web pages” phase. (Netscape)
The “We should standardize this” phase. (ECMAScript)
The “JavaScript isn’t a toy” phase. (Ajax)
The “JavaScript [...]

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