Framework Watch – FJax

Dietrich Kappe, Sunday, October 1, 2006 @ 8:00 am

I feel a little sorry for all of those guys who come up with their own elegant solution to a problem only to have technology or standards make their work irrelevant. I had my own little IFrame-based library that I was proud of and that allowed me to build RIA webapps with wild abandon. I haven't used that library in quite some time, it having been surpassed in quality and expressive power by any number of Ajax frameworks. Altogether, I am a little sad that it's been consigned to the bitbucket of history.

I get a little bit of that same feeling regard FJax, a Javascript Flash integration that simplifies some of the cross-browser XML and Ajax operations. (See the Webmonkey Interview with its creators).

Fjax is a simple technique that hacks through all of the complicated code often associated with this type of development by encapsulating the XML handling into a tiny Flash engine that stays behind the scenes and just shuttles data between the server and the browser window. Working in Fjax is simple, and developers can customize and extend the technique with little effort by writing their own Flash engine to suit their needs

I did say just a little bit of that feeling, mostly from the uninspiring demos on the site that might have been cook 18 months ago. Because of the cross-browser problems that it solves, however, FJax is still interesting, though probably as a transport and XML processing component for a larger Ajax framework.

Technorati : ajax, flash

Related posts:

1. Framework Watch – ThinWire
2. Application Watch – Gliffy, Visio on the Web
3. Framework Watch – CPAINT
4. Framework Watch – BZbyte EZ Ajax
5. Framework Watch – Jayrock

Comments (0)

Software Development

Comments

• Leave a comment
• Comment feed for this post
• TrackBack URL

None so far.

Leave a comment