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Ajax Lightning Demos

Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Ajax day St. John 2

Rapid-fire demonstrations of Ajax projects and concepts, chaired by Simon Willison of Yahoo!.

Provisional line-up below.

  • Ajax library modelled around XForms (Mark Birbeck)
  • Adactio Elsewhere: an example of Hijax in action, this page shows this page shows small pieces of Jeremy Keith, loosely joined. (Jeremy Keith)
  • Request batching – what is it and why do you need it? This session gives you information on how to overcome the one method-call per http request limitation and why there is need for it in certain situations. (Sebastian Schuermann)
  • Pricefinder for used cars. Mobile Opera/AJAX based price comparator (Rocco Georgi)
  • Orbeon PresentationServer: Ajax with XForms, and XForms with Ajax. With demos of the open source OPS XForms engine, we show how Ajax enables XForms in mainstream web browsers and how XForms at the same time effectively functions as a powerful, declarative Ajax framework. (Erik Bruchez)
  • Dabble DB. Dabble DB lets anyone collaboratively and incrementally model and manage data over the web. (Avi Bryant)
Chair: Simon Willison