Javascript News & Articles

Less than 30 days after the company’s CEO was fired, Yahoo Inc. launched an HTML5 development toolkit (Cocktails) with support for Node.js, JavaScript and CSS3, and blow-your-socks-off social integration apps for mobile devices including its content-rich digital news app called Livestand for the iPad.

But the turmoil rages on at Yahoo as the second-largest shareholder (Third Point LLC) went public on Friday, with an open letter to Yahoo’s board over “deep concerns” in the fiscal direction of the company, and calling for the resignation of co-founder Jerry Yang. 

When Alcatel-Lucent acquired OpenPlug in September of 2010, we figured another innovative development platform would disappear under the umbrella of a huge corporation. I am glad we were wrong.

Business and social site LinkedIn (news, site) has created a developer platform that lets your own site show professional and company information from LinkedIn's and offer wider interactions.

Ephox (news, site) unveils the latest update to its EditLive tool for both professionals and enterprises who write for the Web.

At the Liferay (news, site) East Coast Symposium, announcements have been flying. Here's what the open source portal vendor has in store.

Back in 2009, eXo (news, site) and Red Hat (news, site) banded together to create an enterprise-level portal. Now that portal has reached a new milestone in its maturation and growth.

Mashups may be all the rage, but can expose the enterprise to all manner of security risks. Enter the OpenAjax Alliance (news, site) and its new standard for more secure mashing.

Packt Publishing (news, link) has released its first book published through RAW (Read as we Write) program, where customers read pre-publication chapters and offer comments before the book goes to press. The RAW experiment could offer an interesting publishing model at a time when many publishers are struggling to survive.

CEO Sridhar Vembu of Zoho wrote an interesting article about why the Zoho suite is AJAX-rich as opposed to Flash-heavy. For those of you who still think AJAX killed the info-architect, it makes for nice reading.

Vembu prefaces the post by stating Flash is a great tool for other stuff (like ToonDoo, par exemple). But for the Zoho suite, the flexible nature of Javascript simply serves users better.

Who doesn’t love AJAX? It alters a site’s content without users having to reload. It’s rendered the pageview virtually worthless, inspiring Nielsen/BuzzMetrics to pursue a time-based site tracking model for calculating the popularity of sites. And in many ways, its availability is one manner of gauging the hip-with-it-ness of a site.

As with any snazzy and hype-ridden new technology, there is reason to take caution.

Google is working on a new AJAX API that will enable the good user — that’s you — to post feeds to your web properties with just a wee bit of simple JavaScript.

Those who’ve tried weathering the storm of server-side feed grabbing and caching issues and the labyrinthine depths of parsing XML know what a welcome pairing this is.