If you’ve used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, you’re familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness users associate with desktop applications.

Companies deploy Web-based enterprise applications because they’re easy to support and deliver to a broad range of devices. In the 1990s, browsers became the platform for critical applications such as ...

Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment that runs on the Java platform. Using Phobos, you can take advantage of the benefits offered by scripting languages and ...

One year ago, Thomas Lackner didn’t ask much of JavaScript. When he sketched out the architecture to a Web application, he knew he could count on the browser language for “set-a-cookie hacks” and for ...

Messaging company Zimbra is one of several companies betting that Ajax-style Web development will shake up the PC software market. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

More thoughts on why Ajax is bad for web applications I feel like I always preface these kinds of posts, but I want to make it abundantly clear that I'm not on some kind of crusade against Ajax. When ...

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Denim Group Ltd., a market leader of web-application security consulting and training, today announced its donation of Sprajax, an open source security scanner for AJAX, to the non-profit Open Web ...

An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications. Over the years, desktop applications tied to a specific ...