There and Back Again

Dojo is a class library for JavaScript and DHTML. At the core of Dojo is a package system that can include as little or as much of this class library as your application needs. Dojo "plays nice" with other tools (does not pollute gloabal objects or namespace) and is lightweight to develop with and even faster when you deploy it. Dojo provides a capable widget system that makes building and using widgets in markup drop-dead easy. Overviews of many parts of the system are available on the Dojo wiki at http://dojo.jot.com.

browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters Tech wise it uses its own XMLHttpRequest wrapper and sends javascript to the client which is evaled. All AJAX reports seem to be GET requests just passing in some basic data in the query string. I'm not sure what they do for forms, the code has a number of large monolithic library files so its not the easiest to quickly understand.

Bitkraft is a CLR based (.NET) web framework. It is written in C# and compiles for operation under the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1+ or the .Mono Framework, making it portable to almost any platform. At it's core, the Bitkraft framework extends the ASP .NET Architecture to fully support Javascript-based Server callbacks using the XmlHttpRequest object as a transport to provide for AJAX communications. By extending the .NET architecture elements like web controls can be used seemlessly in an AJAX fashion.

Very well written feed reader with a nice clean UI. Good example of how to give feedback to a user during the loadng process. No toolkit was used but its not really needed for an app like this since all the work is done in PHP. New chunks of HTML are downloaded and replaced using innerHTML.

A new toolkit that uses similar data serialization techniques as JPSpan. Focus is on automatic form validation and includes automatic form field binding code. Supports synchronous and asynchronous operation and mapping js calls directly to php calls. Calls are made against classes which are exposed to javscript content by including the base js library and using a bind api.

A PHP AJAX lib providing mapped functions and asynchronous operation. Mapped funtions are procedural and are prefixed in javascrpt with xajax_. The unique feature is that you don't write callback methods in your JavaScript code, instead you create an xajax response object that says what elements to do content replacement with or even what JavaScript code to add to the page.