[Web4lib] Skills for Library 2.0 Leaders

[Junus, Ranti]

The new buzzword of the time is now RIA (Rich Internet Application),
AJAX-like applications on steroid... 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_Application

I wonder if eventually harddisk on local PC would no longer needed and
we're going back to dumb terminals.


ranti.

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Ranti Junus
Michigan State University Libraries
East Lansing, MI 48824
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Skills for Library 2.0 Leaders
> 
> If you're looking into Ajax, I'd start by looking at 
> Prototype. It makes Ajax (and some other things) trivial. The 
> Prototype site has good documentation.
> 
> I rolled my own Ajax based on the O'Reilly Ajax book. Now I 
> just use Prototype and forget about all the details.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On 5/2/07, David Kemper <siansleep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Great, thanks, Robin. Someone pointed out to me that W3C Schools 
> > offers some basic online teaching and tutorials.
> >
> > On 5/2/07, Robin Hastings <robin.hastings at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/2/07, David Kemper <siansleep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >Does anyone know of a quick and dirty AJAX tutorial or  tool? (I 
> > > >would suspect Adobe or Microsoft would be working on  something 
> > > >like this...)
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > This is neither particularly quick or dirty, but the best 
> intro to 
> > > AJAX I've seen is the "head first" series title -
> > > http://www.amazon.com/Head-Rush-Ajax-First/dp/0596102259 
> - Head Rush 
> > > AJAX. It's shorter than most of  the titles in that series (hence 
> > > the "rush" in the title), but it is really great at getting the 
> > > concepts across. You may want to look at 
> http://www.ajaxian.com as 
> > > well - they link to a lot of online tutorials.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robin Hastings
> > > robin.hastings at gmail.com
> > > http://www.rhastings.net
> > >
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