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Yahoo!’s new Performance Best Practices

Yahoo!’s performance guidelines are pretty famous by now, and they’ve again added 20 more rules, as reported on Ajaxian. Especially when your Ajax applications are used world-wide or used over modem connections, these guidelines squeeze additional performance out of your Ajax app.

Read the 20 New Yahoo! Performance Rules.


Ajax Framework Market Share

2007 Ajax Tools Usage Survey ResultsLast week Ajaxian and Burton Group’s Richard Monson-Haefel conducted a survey amongst Ajax developers. It showed that more and more developers are using Ajax frameworks instead of hand-coding Ajax. Although the total number of frameworks has increased, there is a limited number of frameworks that is really popular.

What is astonishing is the nearly complete lack of commercial Ajax frameworks. Backbase has had a lot of success making a comeback after loosing some market share in 2006, but other commercial Ajax frameworks have not been so lucky.


OpenAjax Hub 1.0 Spec Released

The OpenAjax Hub is a set of standard JavaScript functionality that ensures that multiple Ajax libraries can be used within the same web page. This week the final 1.0 specification was approved by the OpenAjax members. This is the first specification to come out of The OpenAjax Alliance, which is a major milestone towards standardization of Ajax.