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Ajax framework rolled out two years ago, and tweaked in the interim.

But Microsoft has its work cut out with the browser, said John Resig, lead developer of the jQuery Ajax library project and JavaScript Evangelist for Mozilla.

"In browsers, Microsoft is not competing very strongly in terms of performance, and that is the big metric now. Before it was about conformance," said Restig More...

of IT.

The Workshop Studio bundle that is supposed to emerge from this partnership includes Flex Builder 2, Adobe's Eclipse-based IDE and the Adobe Flex SDK, which is planned to be released under the open source Mozilla Public License, the BEA announcement said.

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While Chuang was championing mashups on Tuesday, Shimmin said the overall vision beyond More...

RIA options are advised in the report to begin working with Ajax as opposed to the competing technologies including Adobe Flash, Java applets, Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), Mozilla's XML User Interface Language (XUL) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). However, Monson-Haefel does predict that Flash will be the choice for applications that More...

need for fixes and those fixes have been made, he said.

"So for developers working or starting to work with XForms, the world is now a nicer place," he said. To see how it works, he points to sample applications of it from the Mozilla XForms Project.

While maintaining that XForms "can solve the same things as Ajax can without the need for scripting," the one question Beaufour says is hard to More...

today is Macromedia Flash/Flex. Other RIA technologies include the user interface markup language for the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation called XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), Mozilla's XML-based user interface language XUL, droplets and Java applets, and Microsoft's upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E).

"[Flash] is a More...

GNOME and Mozilla representatives are meeting to unify their desktop and browser offerings to counter Microsoft's similar punch with Longhorn More...

Mozilla has issued a fix against a security flaw in its Application Suite, Firefox and Thunderbird products that could allow malicious Web sites to use the Windows "shell:" URI handler in an attack More...

Rhino in Spring, which is designed to integrate the Mozilla Foundation's Rhino JavaScript interpreter for Java with the Spring Framework, has its next evolutionary release, 1.1. The current release includes a controller component for the Spring Web MVC that allows you to More...

While the Firefox 2.0 Web browser has only been out for a couple months, Mozilla.org is already working on its successor. The alpha code is available for developers to download so they can see how it will play with their Web services apps More...

The Mozilla Control Program (MCP), named partially in honor of the evil OS in Tron, enables testing Ajax-enabled applications using JUnit. The MCP allows full page inspections, as well as examination of Ajax responses, using an More...