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Ajax day sessions

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Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and Ajax.
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Andy Smith (anarkystic.com)
Ajax is one step along the path of improved user experience, but it's not yet certain the future will be build on open standards. Find out why this matters to you, your users, and what the Dojo Foundation is doing about it.
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Max Carlson (OpenLaszlo.org)
This paper discusses the upcoming plans for OpenLaszlo and how they relate to the Ajax community at large. It includes an overview of the language, a demo of the current Ajax support, and talks about the future of OpenLaszlo as a platform.
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Jeremy Keith (Clearleft)
Ajax is hot topic. Behind the hype lies a technology that can greatly enhance websites. Those enhancements can and should degrade gracefully. By applying the principle of progressive enhancement, you can ensure that no visitor is left behind.
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Sebastian Schürmann (Mayflower / Thinkphp)
This talk describes the daily experience of developing an Ajax Framework and Applications for Sixt Car Rental in XUL and Javascript. It will give you an insight in the practical lessons we learned in the last 2 Years.
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Ben Watson (Adobe)
Description to follow.
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Kurt Cagle (Metaphorical Web)
ECMAScript for XML provides a way to use XML as a native datatype, and is being adopted by most major players in the industry. Join Kurt Cagle as he explores how the use of AJAX and E4X together will simplify programming web applications.
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Menno van Slooten (Backbase)
Ajax developers are relying heavily on JavaScript to make web interfaces richer. But JavaScript has drawbacks. XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT are a great alternative and can be used efficiently for managing Ajax-style interactivity.
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Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Rapid-fire demonstrations of Ajax projects and concepts, chaired by Simon Willison of Yahoo!