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Its called Gliffy -

Gliffy Inc. is a next-generation rich internet application company based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Our mission is to provide platform independent internet applications with rich user interfaces for collaboration. Since May of 2005, Gliffy has funded development of our technology through bootstrapping and OpenLaszlo consulting services.

The sudden rise in the use of AJAX and other similar RIA (Rich Internet Applications ) means that the legendary page views model which has been around since the beginning of the web is going to undergo a major change.

One industry which is certain to get hit by it in the Online Advertising Industry where pageviews are considered an important factor.

Forbes had an article some time back on Ajax breaking the advertising business model:

It also means that services like Google Analytics are a bound to get more users for their service .

IE7 is basically non-compliant with CSS web standards.

IE6 51%
IE7 55%
Firefox 93%
Will this affect Web 2.0?

readmore here

technorati tags:web2.0, CSS, XHTML, IE, firefox, opera, ie7

A couple of weeks ago Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith Teare (edgeio), Steven Marder (Eurekster), Joe Kraus (JotSpot), Jeremy Verba (Piczo), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), Chris Alden (Rojo), Gautam Godhwani (Simply Hired), Jonathan Abrams (Socializr), David Sifry (Technorati), Matt Sanchez (Video Egg) and Michael Tanne (Wink).

View the video here

Found this post at Helen Keegan’s Blog via Ajit Jaokar

There’s a useful list of web 2.0 companies here that you might find interesting. Unfortunately, there’s no list of mobile 2.0 companies included… Any offers to compile it?

Adam Howitt has put together an 8-page PDF on Ajax design. In the guide which you can download from the link below Ill cover the process I have developed in the course of implementing two AJAX applications as a developer for Duo Consulting in Chicago. This approach has made it easier for me to work with the design team, produce estimates for this type of project and communicate what is involved each step of the way to the project managers for scheduling purposes. He begins by taking a UI sketch and marks all discreet sections. Each section becomes its own JS file. From there, you decide on each interaction in each section, and create a Javascript function for it, later consolidating repeated functions into reusable objects. You also need to consider the nature of remoting,….

Web 2.0 madness is on the rise !!

Check this link which shows mockups of many famous brands like nike, citibank, microsoft etc

Building a form like this using tables is easy .. scroll down and see the source code … no table no td no tr … just plain CSS..

CSS is real fun to play with and powerfull too

[code lang="CSS"]

body{
background-color:#fff;
font-family:Arial;
}
#frmAddress{
background-color:#fee9bd;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
border:1px solid #FFCC66;
width:50%;
}
#frmAddress h1{
font-size:20px;
background-color:#fff8db;
padding:0px;
margin :0px;
}

.frmin{
width:150px;
background-color:#fff8db;
margin-top:2px;
margin-bottom:4px;
}

label{
background-color:#fff8db;
border:1px solid #ccc;
float: left;
width: 120px;
margin:3px;
padding:3px;
font: bold normal 13px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

br{
clear:left;
}

[/code]

[code lang="HTML"]

[/code]

What’s so bad about using tables?

Difficult and annoying to change styles.

Positioning is difficult.

Not Search Engine Friendly.

Cannot transform the page to other markup languages easily.

Tables are slower in loading.

They are not flexible or free flowing on screen unlike layers.

Whats so good about CSS and Layers ?

Ease of use – CSS is far easier to learn and use rather than tables which have a complicated structure like.

Highly flexible layouts possible – CSS layouts are known for their flexibility. you can make the columns rows adjust as per the users screen resolution

Positioning is so powerful – layouts which were thought highly complex with native HTML are a breeze with CSS. You can position layers both relatively and absolutely

Least load time -lesser HTML tag elements mean lesser load times. tables have table td tr tags whereas in CSS only div tags are main players

Templating is made easy – you can have different templates stored in different CSS style sheets. Load the stylesheet as per template. This makes templating easier

Search engine friendly – since code and content are a bit separate from each other when using CSS, it might be considered SE friendly some drawbacks of using CSS layers

Tables are easy to use for beginners. Although CSS is not that tough to learn and use. Its very advanced and very often developers dont make the best use of CSS.

Table Postitions are easy to control in a webpage.Although CSS can be used to control table positions, tables are still regarded as a easy and fast way of putting up content online.

Tables preserve formatting even when the text or data is copied on to a word processing application The conclusion

Today’s Webdeveloper/Designer cant avoid CSS anymore due to growing demand for accessibility.

So my advice would be to make the best use of CSS wherever its apt and use tables only in areas where CSS layers cannot do the job