The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

The new build includes "support for the HTML 5 video element" and the ability to "drag and drop tabs between browser windows." ComputerWorld is running a related story about benchmarks shown by Mozilla's Brendan Eich which indicate that Firefox 3.1 will run Javascript faster than Chrome.

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 now available for download

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FIREFOX 3.1 ACCELERATES JAVASCRIPT APPS WITH NEW FEATURE - TRACEMONKEY

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Dojango, a template Django application that includes full Dojo support baked in, has been released by Tobias Klipstein, Nikolai Onken, and Wolfram Kriesing.

Dojango version 0.3 released
Dojango

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With Breeze you can turn your idea into a rich mobile application (J2ME) - if you can create a website, using Breeze you can now create mobile applications.

Breeze is a simulator, which lets developers test their mobile application based on html and javascript for many handsets and mobile devices.


Cascada Mobile on Vimeo.

http://www.cascadamobile.com/
http://www.breezeapps.com

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Processing is a data visualization programming language, which John Resig has ported to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.... [demos here]

Obsessing is a "very alpha" service that allows you to edit and build Processing.js applications on the fly. Obsessing is all about bringing the Processing API/experience into the browser.

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Soup, from vienna based company euphoria, is a tumblelog or microblogging service to post links, quotes, videos, audio and files often in a funny ajax way :). it can aggregate everything you create online in your own style, at your own address with an easy user interface. it's free.

while i try out my soup i'm listening to Saint Privat & Tous Les Jours

http://www.soup.io/

tags: soup tumblelog euphoria

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The intents of annotation of webpages were to share knowledge information and to encourage a way of free speech on the internet...
please read also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Most of these application offer browser plugin to share your annotations and bookmarks friendly.
These services use flash- or javascript-based application to grab and cache the ressource to modify and save it for you.




My Nominates are:

1. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. check out the FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.

2. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, hot in there community today eg.: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

3. With fleck.com you can save all your interesting websites online in one place.

4. Mento (new!!) is for sharing links with friends: Smarter than email overload, more permanent than IM, and always just one click away...

5. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web...

6. Write Stickis on any web page. Read what your crowd of friends and bloggers have written right there...

7. With Trailfire you find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, Discover trails

8. kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

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According to mir.aculo.us and of course

...thanks to Dion Almaer and Google, you can now use served-off-googles-infrastructure versions of your favourite JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and script.aculo.us.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

most popular JavaScript open source libraries are

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

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...with zembly, you easily create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, targeting the most popular social platforms on the web. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, meebo apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications.”

http://zembly.com/
http://blog.zembly.com/

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While traditionally Java Applets and the Web have mixed together about as well as concrete and peanut butter, the upcoming revised Java plug-in might give a window for Java-based GUI toolkits to be of interest to Web folks.
older alternate GUI toolkit is Thinlet

-> Pivot platform
-> ThinLet platform

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