Mozilla will return to fight in the field of pure performance, adding the 3.1 version of its Firefox browser a new tool. The latter, named TraceMonkey, the task will be speeded up as far as possible the execution of JavaScript code that is now heavily used in all sites as “web 2.0″.

Aptana Studio is an IDE for creating web 2.0 applications. It can be downloaded and run as an application or run in the Eclipse IDE. This application is designed and optimized for web development languages such as JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, with other plugins available including Adobe AIR and iPhone development.

Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages.

作为 Web2.0 时代众多 Web 功能动力源泉的 Javascript 技术，以及其规范标准 ECMAScript ，曾一度被指出需要做出改进，这一改进曾由两个工作组并列进行，一是由 Adobe, Mozilla, Opera, 以及 Google 等主导的 ECMAScript 4 小组，另一个是 Microsoft 和 Yahoo! 主导的 ECMAScript 3.1 小组。日前，这两个小组达成一致，推出 ECMAScript Harmony 项目，旨在对这两个工作组各自的 ECMAScript 标准进行统一，以共同推动 Javascript 2 的发展。

Web 2.0 study site. Easily make and share JavaScript flash cards.

4D have recently released a new version of their Ajax Framework, included in this new release a major enhancement with HTML 5, Google Gears and Adobe Air support, In addition to support codeless generation of an Ajax client for the iPhone. Below the press release :

Major release features the world’s first Flex-to-Database …

A great list of web2.0 style desktops in a browser.

4D is a commercial company that has a high level framework that sits on top of their RDBMS technology. They have a new version that allows you to access data in many new places: iPhone, Gears, HTML 5 APIs, AIR and Flex.
Check out the online demos such as a drag and drop shopping cart, or the …

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Some VERY unique and amazing examples of JavaScript utilized in web 2.0 sites.

Didier Girard pinged us about Farbtube:

This Web 2.0 / GWT example allows to draw on an infinite canvas and to see others changes immediately. It works like Google Maps: Use the “Move” cursor to walk around the canvas

Time for graffiti.

The world may not have asked for another Web 2.0 button generator, but it just got one. “As Button Generator” (we’re assuming “As” is short for ActionScript) has a few features that sets it apart from the traditional fare:

It’s Flash-based, so you can interact live while you make changes, including drag-and-drop text placement, …

Apple has given an early beta of the Safari 4 web browser to developers at its WWDC. Safari 4 promises JavaScript acceleration through the use of the latest SquirrelFish optimization technology. According to Apple, it will bring noticeable improvements in responsiveness and performance of web 2.0 sites and web applications.

To test the performance of browsers when handling Web 2.0 technologies, we used the iBench 5.0 test suite and SunSpider, a Javascript benchmark.

Steve Souders has released a nice little tool called Cuzillion which has the tag line of ‘cuz there are zillion pages to check, although it could also be that there are a zillion ways to do Web development!
The tool lets you test out different techniques for optimizing performance in browsers, and these tests can …

Ryan Stewart of Adobe and I got to give a joint talk this morning that covered Adobe AIR, Gears, and how you can build offline and desktop applications right now.
Obviously, Ryan gave an overview of AIR, and I did the same for Gears. We also discussed reasons to be excited about Web development, some of the ideas that are out …

About 40 hours of Video lectures straight from the Contemporary Architects of notable Web2.0 experiences, absolutely free and ready to download. Here are my favorites to learn Java script, Lectures that you can’t miss

Adobe continues to expand its support for the Linux platofrm by announcing the release of the Adobe AIR runtime for Linux. This expands the ability to deploy AIR desktop applications to the three major operating systems (Windows, OS X & Linux) while still using the standard web technologies developers have become accustomed to.
This release of AIR for Linux …

How to make your AJAXy moving and resizing elements not suck. Not the most complicated piece of JavaScript ever written, but a useful tool for any Web 2.0 programmer who doesn’t already have this sort of thing.

AnyIRC allows you to connect to an IRC server, and access this connection from anywhere else by using a modern, javascript equipped web-browser. A bit of old-skool Internet mixed with a dash of web 2.0.

Well I suppose it’s an undeniable fact about us programmer-types — every now and then we just can’t help but get excited about something really nerdy. For me right now, that is definitely JavaScript 2.0. I was just taking a look at the proposed specifications and I am really, truly excited about what we have coming.

In this entry we’ll look at how to combine and minify the JavaScript files using server modes, various tools, and manual optimizations

Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences*

With the web 2.0 craze finally taking hold of our employers, it seems everyone wants us to add some nifty Javascript to the web applications we build. Of course, we aren’t Javascript developers, we’re PHP developers…

Kiichi Takeuchi has created a cheeky little site called O’Reilly Maker that let’s you create silly O’Reilly book covers in a live preview style using jQuery and Django.
Surely, Tim will get these guys to rename (remember Web 2.0 conferences?).
I am sure you can come up with funnier ones that I can, so add them to the comments.
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Building web 2.0 style functionality into your BIRT report may be easier than you think. BIRT provides a very easy to use mechanism to enable your javascript code, direct access to any report element present in your report, and with a little bit of Javascript magic, you can provide a rich experience your users have always dreamed of.

Since IE8 will (supposedly) pass ACID 2 when it ships (in 2009?) that means everyone is at the ACID party, thus time for a new test. ACID 3 steps up the challenge by hitting browsers in the “Web 2.0″ area… JavaScript (ECMAScript ). Since it is notoriously behind in JS/DOM support it is expected that IE will make …

A consise description of css and javascript as part of Web 2.0 (Part 2 in the series)

Andi Gutmans and Cal Evans explain in an article on Dr. Dobb’s how they build a Web 2.0 application “Flickr News Network” using PHP on the back end and JavaScript for presentation.

Nick Bouton has released Protagonize, an
online writers’ community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the adventure, a type of collaborative fiction. Once an author writes a story, others can post branches to that story in different directions.
We chatted with Nick about the new site:
What was your inspiration?
Early forms of this on the web date back over a …

A start page from Odysen with news search widgets relating to Internet/web 2.0 applications. Includes Ruby Rails, Javascript, XSL, CSS, Firefox 2.0, and AJAX. The widgets are free-formatting so you can change to the widget size to whatever you want.

Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. * No plugins like Flash or Java required.*Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window.

After hundreds of man months, the marketing team behind IE has come up with a name (which has been holding back the product). They looked at:

IE 7+1

IE VIII

IE 1000 (think binary)

IE Eight!

iIE

IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)

IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one
Ie2.079 (we …

Andre Lewis has a new site out there, Placeshout which offers a way to quickly call out your favourites place in various locations.
You could argue that we have other places for this… Yelp for example, or My Maps themselves. So, why Placeshout?

Sometimes, you just want a quick suggestion
When Andre and I are looking for a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant …

I had the pleasure of hosting Steve Souders at Google, as he gave a talk on the great performance work that he has done as Chief Performance Yahoo!. We have seen some of the fruits of his labour via his book and, of course, YSlow itself.
In this talk, Steve goes through core performance issues and gives developers tools …

I can just picture Dylan and Alex in a meeting with someone pitching:

So, we want to have a flash memory card, and put an Ajax application on it.

Well, they did it. Eye-Fi has launched and it combines WiFi with a 2GB card.

With Eye-Fi, your photos can be automatically sent to any number of popular online photo services (Shutterfly, Flickr, …

Raymond Penners has launched sosymbol, a site with a collection of web2.0 (read: big?) style buttons and symbols that can be mashed up online and exported to svg/screensaver.

It’s a free Click-to-Talk web 2.0 service based on Asterisk and IAX2. You can create your button directly from web interfaces and add trough simple JavaScript button on your web site. All the features can be managed from the web interface . It’s in beta.

All about web 2.0, Ajax, CSS, Javascript, HTML, PHP

Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, James Governor have a new book on Web 2.0 Design Patterns which mixes in the Enterprise with the funky Web 2.0 crowd.
James and Duane have a little chat about what the book is about and the tension between the enterprise world and the simple Web.

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A case study of the Lombardi Blueprint process mapping tool was recently posted to the GWT
developer blog:

Blueprint is a multi-thousand line Web 2.0 application that developed over the last year or so. After trying and abandoning Flash and Dojo based versions of the app, we settled on GWT for its far superior ease of debugging, code size, …

At the core of Web 2.0 are applications that use code written in Ajax and JavaScript, which make them behave in ways that traditional security technologies can’t cope with, explained Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering for Symantec in Santa Monica, Calif. “Ajax blurs the line between the Web and my applications on the desktop.”

According to Ars Technica, Apple is working on giving more offline storage capabilities to Safari so that it would be able to run web applications offline using JavaScript - similar to Google Gears, but currently has no plans to offer a true native iPhone SDK.

Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) is now out of beta and into version 1.0. This essentially allows Facebook applications to have the same type of interactivity and desktop-like functionality that is commonplace in Web 2.0 applications that live outside of Facebook. FBJS has been in beta for about a month.

Crawling challenges and browser simulationAn important reconnaissance tool when performing web application assessment is a web crawler. A web crawler crawls every single page and collects all HREFs (links). But what if these HREFs point to a JavaScript function that makes Ajax calls using the XHR object?

Kaazing is a new startup in the bay area that just announced itself to the world via a press release Kaazing and Terracotta Partner to Deliver Advanced Real-Time Web 2.0 Technology:

Kaazing Corporation and Terracotta, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance to deliver the software industry’s most scalable and advanced real-time Web 2.0 technology for financial systems, online gaming, online …

A web 2.0 (segundo especialistas) é interatividade + uso abusivo de JavaScript. Assim como na década de 90.

Web 2.0 é muito mais que um layout, o conceito inventado por Tim O´Reilly se refere às novas tendências da web onde quem faz a Web é você.Conteúdo compartilhado, Simplicidade, Descentralização, Wikis, Tags, XML, Ajax, CSS e Javascript são apenas algumas características e recursos que a Web 2.0 tem a lhe oferecer.

Trend Micro’s Michael May explains how Web 2.0 provides hackers with the opportunity to launch Javascript based exploits.