R.I.C.S

R.I.C.S stands for Rich Interface Component - Spreadsheet. Not really something very new, people HAVE tried this in the past and I’m sure there are AJAX implementations for the same. The idea of this R&D project is to develop an entirely server independent component. More information about the project can be found at http://www.primacognos.com/wiki. the application’s prototype itself can be seen at http://203.129.220.110/ajax/test2012.html. For now the server implementation has only been done in PHP, the .NET script should be ready today.

My major concern, as of right now is implementing a request queue. For an application like this where every “return” keypress sends data to the server and then relays the response back to the client it is important to keep a track of requests so that we don’t end up with a lot of unsychronized data. I am still looking around for clues on how to do this, any help will be gladly appreciated.

I wish Harry reads this …

digg spy : real-time view of digg through ajax

The very much popular Digg has added a real-time view to it’s sit, www.digg.com/spy.
You can choose the posts are shown, newly submitted or promoted, dugg stories, burried stories and with new comment.

After loading, Spy automatically polls digg every few seconds for the latest site- wide activity. The Spy page is then updated via AJAX to show the latest happenings.

www.digg.com/spy

AjaxTrans - An Ajax Translator

Start typing any text you want to be translated into the green field. The words should be automatically translated into the language of your choice and appear in the bluish box. To switch langauges, simply click on the language you would like to translate from and then procede to select the language you would like to translate into. In order to swap the contents of the two boxes, use a double click.

Theres nothing more too say. A simple Online Translator .

Blockrocker - google maps mash up for classifeds

Blockrocker is the best example to show use of Google Maps. Blockrocker is a classified site, while registering itself Google Maps is shown where one can choose the current location, and then procede with the registration.

Rod Edwards -

AJAX is obviously used to populate the main page, based on map manipulations, the search criteria underneath, and the “order by” and “show results” boxes. Its one function called by all of the different controls and gmap listeners; still some optimization that needs to be done in how it works to keep improving responsiveness.
At present, AJAX is only used for this primary search navigation; but that’s a third of the functionality on the site (search/view/add).

I will be adding more ajax functionality to the “create a classified” (add) side of things. Everything from dhtml previews to ajax-powered “add a category” features will be added over the holidays, with any luck.

I’m also debating ways to incorporate “add a classified” functionality into the search results, but my primary goal is to keep a streamlined user experience, which may yet mean keeping functionality silo’d. We’ll see as I keep experimenting and getting feedback.

So - that’s it in a nutshell. Any suggestions? Anything leap out at you as an obvious opportunity to incorporate further ajax elements?

ajchat (alpha) - Ajax Instant Messaging - ajchat (alpha)

ajchat is an ajax instant messaging through ajax, that allows you to log in or type anonymously. This is currently free and and is Cool !! Check out their Blog here

edit: it was overloaded, working again now .

Pageflakes : Yet another Ajax Desktop

Not soon after release of Gritwire and Google’s Personlised Homepage, a developer has released of a new ajax desktop called Pageflakes. unfortunately it only works in IE (Internet Explorer).
Edit : Works fine now in Firefox and Opera

Pageflakes like most of the Ajax Desktop, features RSS reading, email checking, note taking, searching, etc.
But this also provides a developer API to allow third party module-creation. Ofcourse Google & MSN also have this feature.

Ajaxed - Google Homepage

Yet another wonderful creation from Google, Google’s new personalized homepage feature is an ajax based framework for all types of content and information. Supporting RSS and Atom feeds, bookmarks, weather top stories … you name it ! and ofcourse the sweet “drag and drop menu” feature.
It’s about same as Microsoft’s live.com, but I had a referer to my website’s feeds from ig before live.com was officially released.

In my Opinion the only difference between Live and Google’s Page is the layout design.

Writely - Ajax word Solution

People take Ajax to the extreme and I think I can say that here , Writely is an word processor which allows tagging of documentsand set reader permissions . It is built with the core feature set with an ajax UI . and addd some cool web 2.0 stuffs. Documents can also be tagged for easy searches later. The ability to create PDFs directly from writely is a really useful tool that you cannot do with Word.

Protopage

This is a virtual desktop application made in AJAX. It provides features such as clock, to do list, news aggretator to read news from 100 of sources, allows to store bookmark for quick access, we can name our page as www.protopage.com/yourname, share the part or the whole page with friends or keep it private.

Click here to make your protopage

WWJUA - Where Would Jesus Use Ajax?

There’s a good discussion going on over at Ajaxian about specific times when Ajax should or should not be used based on a posting by Alex Bosworth (10 Places You Must Use Ajax).

From Alex’s article:

For heavy use applications such as a webmail client or a blogreader, users have the luxury of time to learn new UI concepts, and the frustration of interacting with a slow interface. This kind of application is a perfect opportunity to leverage Ajax everywhere. The more frequently users use an application, the more Ajax should be powering that use.

However for most web applications, it doesn’t make any sense to use Javascript for everything or even anything. Ajax only really clearly helps in a limited set of circumstances; the web already worked pretty well before Ajax and there are a lot of pitfalls and drawbacks to using Ajax in web development. A straight html weblog works just fine without being generated dynamically on the client with a stream of asynchronous messages from the server. Plain old HTML also works great for documents, or navigating between documents. Simple or rarely used applications can get along fine without putting in a bunch of Javascript.

A good reminder for sure, that ultimately it is not the technology that should dictate developer choices, rather it should be whatever will best serve the customer (the users!)

Good discussion going on Ajaxian: 6 Places You Must Use Ajax