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Downloadify is an Open Source JavaScript + Flash component that can be used to create downloadable files without a round trip to the server. More information: downloadify.info

The IE team is busy working on the next version of the world's most popular browser. IE 8 is the most widely used browser on Windows. IE 9 is currently in the oven and the IE team is ready to talk about what they're working on. Here, JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and Shanku Niyogi give us an early look at the new JS engine that will ship with IE 9. As of the interview, it is on par with the latest performance numbers of the latest Firefox beta and making progress in catching up to Chrome's latest V8. Again, this is a really early look at where the JS engine is and where it's going (and what they've done, architecturally, to speed up IE's JS engine). Enjoy!

During PDC 09 I grabbed some time with Stephen Walther to talk about some of the exciting new developments with the ASP.NET Ajax Library.  There were a number of new things to talk about including: The ASP.NET Ajax Library is now in Beta Merging the Ajax Control Toolkit and the ASP.NET Ajax Library There is now a pure client-side version of the Ajax Control Toolkit as well as the server-side version Microsoft donating the ASP.NET Ajax Library into the CodePlex Foundation There is now full product support of ASP.NET Ajax Library from Microsoft (including Ajax Control Toolkit We then walked through some demos of the ASP.NET Ajax Library that brings the following exciting capabilities to developers:   Power Build data-centric web apps using advanced client-side data access libraries and controls Keep your markup clean and standards-compliant with imperative coding Make it easier to code using JavaScript intellisense in Visual Studio Keep loading and execution of your scripts simple with the Script Loader with advanced management and execution features Performance Use the ASP.NET Ajax Library CDN for lightning fast downloads of ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery Reduce the number of requests to the server using script combining in the Script Loader Reduce the size of your scripts using the ASP.NET Ajax Minifier Tool Interoperability Works across all browsers and any platform; ASP.NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails etc Explore the code and make modifications, it’s open source Use powerful jQuery selection syntax and Ajax Control Toolkit controls together Create your own controls by extending ours like the DataView Check out my full blog post about the news here: http://www.jamessenior.com/post/News-on-the-ASPNET-Ajax-Library.aspx Check out the docs and samples on the wiki here: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary   Download the code from http://ajax.codeplex.com

YUI architect Matt Sweeney s (@msweeney) talk at YUICONF 2009 focused on extracting maximum performance from YUI 3. He drilled into the seed file options, lazy-loading strategies, and YUI 3 techniques for DOM and Event interaction that keep overhead low and performance high. He concluded with a review of his internal benchmarks for YUI 3 using the Slickspeed and Taskspeed performance suites. If the video embed below doesn t show up correctly in your RSS reader of choice, be sure to click through to watch the high-resolution version of the video on YUI Theater; the downloadable version is much smaller, optimized as it is for iPods, iPhones, and other handheld devices. src="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ypp/default/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="vid=16506005 autoPlay=0"> Download video (m4v) Download slides Other Recent YUI Theater Videos: Dav Glass: Contributing to YUI Luke Smith: Debugging in YUI 3 Satyen Desai: A Widget Walkthrough Chad Auld: Introducing PHP Loader Subscribing to YUI Theater: YUI Theater RSS feed YUI Theater on iTunes

Ideas on how to mix front-end jQuery interface with back-end Zend Framework. May be boring for advanced users.

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