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.
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Mozilla is about to release Firefox 3 beta 3. The new Firefox 3 is faster, more secure, easier to use, more personal and provides an improved platform for developers. The release notes for beta 2 give a good overview of the new features. There’s an interesting discussion on Ajaxian about Cross-Site XHR Security in Firefox 3: this feature will make cross-site communication easier, but possibly introduces security risks.
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Last 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.
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