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OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

SmartGWT is easy to setup and I simply can't understand why they don't add a few lines into their Getting Started page. Yesterday I found obsolete SmartGWT setup tutorial - but it still works with only one thing missing. As someone mentioned in comments there, you need to add following code into your HTML (before script with your GWT module): Besides this you only need one inherit in your GWT Module XML: And of course - add smartgwt.jar on your classpath for GWT compiler. That's it - now you know how to setup SmartGWT project. (Of course I omitted the coding part, but there is a Showcase with examples.) That's the missing Getting Started. A few lines instead of many links mostly for Eclipse users - with some links not even related to SmartGWT at all.

EXT JS OVERVIEW Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications. Build rich, sustainable web applications faster than ever. It includes: High performance, customizable UI widgets Well designed and extensible Component model An intuitive, easy to use API Commercial and Open Source licenses available BROWSER COMPATIBILITY Ext JS supports all major web browsers including: Internet Explorer 6+ FireFox 1.5+ (PC, Mac) Safari 3+ Chrome 3+ Opera 9+ (PC, Mac)

My view of GWT is changing. When I wrote 5 GWT Anti-Patterns I saw it as the framework controlling my entire application. Now it's my glue. GWT is a wonderful foundation holding together the different parts of your application. It can grow and expand to new technologies and uses we haven't thought of yet, but it can also hold us back. You can get stuck in GWT and never find your way out. Each of these four anti-patterns addresses different ways to write code you wish you hadn't. The solutions are all about opening doors instead of closing them.

"jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design. "

not very useful. I prefer script.aculo.us + prototype

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

nice form validation in mootools

The Javascript Bubbling Library (YUI-CMS) is a set of plugins, behaviors and widgets, for building event-driven web applications using the bubble-up technique. The Bubbling Library also includes several plugins that can be used to extend the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library to manage dynamic areas which are closely related with the event-driven philosophy. All components in the Bubbling Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

Creating complex web applications demands organization and modularization. Modularization introduces a new problem - the comunication pipes between components. This is a serious challenge for developers, as more components and widgets mean more pipelines and more dependencies. In this article, we'll look at a technique to mitigate these issues: Creating an abstraction layer to moderate the comunication between the components and widgets in a web application. This technique is based on YUI and makes use of my Bubbling Library, which is a BSD-licensed superset of functionality that builds on top of the YUI foundation.

The Lightbox Clones Matrix This tool lists a number of javascript scripts designed to embed various objects in HTML pages, such as images, flash animations, movies and iframes. Comparison of various scripts that display images and other objects in somehow cool CSS popups

External JavaScript files block downloads and hurt your page performance, but there is an easy way to work around this problem: use dynamic scripts tags and load scripts in parallel, improving the page loading speed and the user experience.

Very interesting collaborative tool that I just read about in Mashable.

MOO.RD - A lightweight Mootools extension

moo.rd is a super lightweight javascript (object oriented) library based on the MooTools framework. It is designed to give many useful and powerful functionalities to the developers, like a lot of effects, customizable standards, utility native functions, table management, virtual boxes and many more. In addiction moo.rd is modular, flexible, and completely compatible with all MooTools plug-in.

Nowadays many JavaScripters are aware of the advantages of event delegation. Chris Heilmann and Dan Webb, among others, have discussed its advantages, and I've been using it as much as possible for about two years now. Event delegation is especially useful in effects like dropdown menus, where lots of events on links may take place that can easily be handled at the root level (an or in this case).

very nice fish eye image gallery system based on mootools

There's eight ajax applications scheduled to be in the initial release. A contacts manager, calendar, email broadcast tool, to-do lists, a financial ledger, a feed reader, favorites and tagging. All of the applications will be fully accessible by mobile device; there will be three versions of the site, a text only version for simple phones, a version with more graphics for PDAs and the basic browser version.