Welcome to bsSvnBrowser’s home. We are a Ruby on Rails Subversion Browser. Subversion is an open-source revision control system, more information found at subversion.tigris.org. We make heavy use of “AJAX” technology to give it that live application-like feel.

Website: https://bssvnbrowser.bountysource.com/

flashbang on the Dojo IRC channel suggested I do a quick write-up of my experiences working with Prototype and Dojo. I’ve used Prototype for a couple of AJAX-heavy applications (for Cute Overload and American Idol) and am using Dojo for my current project.

Website: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2006/04/comparison-of-dojo-and-prototype.html

The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks.

Website: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

Nice tutorial on how to do a purely javascript powered motion tween.

Website: http://jstween.blogspot.com/#OpacityTweenEx

Inspired by Alex Bosworth’s list of Ajax mistakes, Chris Laffra has compiled a set of discussion points for every developer to consider before using Ajax techniques for a Web site that he outlines in this two-part series. Some points are potential problem areas; most highlight Ajax’s great potential.n

Website: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxtop1/index.html?ca=drs-

I wanted a robust javascript validation library that was simple to implement and didn’t require me do any extra work other than creating the form.

Website: http://tetlaw.id.au/view/blog/really-easy-field-validation-with-prototype/

While playing with the new RJS templates in rails, I found it difficult to know what was actually being returned from my requests. Thus, AjaxSpy was born. It’s a simple JavaScript and CSS file. All you need to do is include the js file in the header of your document, the css is automagically included (must be in the stylesheets directory). The script relies on Prototype 1.5.0rc0, and for it to be sexy you need the Scriptaculous effects library. You can include it conditionaly based on params in the query string, or do some fancy session stuff.

Website: http://blog.vandev.com/articles/2006/05/04/my-first-tool-for-you

A while ago I had an idea. What if I were to try to geographically locate all the visitors to my website, and tag their locations on a map? Using Google Maps, Ajax, MySQL and some PHP, it came together quite nicely.

Website: http://vega.rd.no/entry/200605_mapping_website_visitors

Late last year Drew McLellan posted a great article on 24ways.org called Edit-in-Place with Ajax. Using Flick as an example and Prototype to do the heavy lifting he showed how to edit text inline. Like many other people I’ve been fascinated by this approach to altering text. After playing with Drew’s example off and on I finally sat down and decided to generalize it a bit more to make it easier to use.

Website: http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/04/18/ajax-edit-in-place-with-prototype/

This is a very common task in web application development. The interest to use Ajax for this is to provide a dynamic interface which doesn’t need to reload the entire page when the table changes. The interest of using Rails is… well, if you are reading this you should already know, but Ajax is really nicely integrated with Rails, and using it is very easier with this great framework.

Website: http://dev.nozav.org/rails_ajax_table.html