‘Ajax’ posts

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Open Source Java Toolkit for RIAs – Pivot

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Nov 2008

In this video from a webinar session with Optaros, Greg Brown and Todd Volkert explain and demonstrate Pivot Tookit, a Java framework for building Rich Internet Applications. The audio is a bit noisy for the first 3 minutes or so but cleans up after that. To really see the code samples you’ll likely need to | View post »

Optaros ‘open sources’ DoCASU 1.0, a RIA User Interface for Alfresco ECM

Posted by Optaros on 15 Jul 2008

Open Source software has many advantages compared to proprietary alternatives. The fact that the source code is open might often not even be the most relevant benefit. The ability to access functions and componentized services through open APIs (application programming interfaces) allows to focus development efforts on what is most important for the usage of | View post »

Ecommerce Solution – ROI of RIA in ecommerce

Posted by Optaros on 13 Mar 2008

Rich Internet Application capabilities, such as whiz-bang Flash and AJAX capabilities do look cool. But do they attract return on investment for ecommerce solutions? Do they drive up conversion, average order size or deter abandonment? There does not seem to be definitive A/B testing consensus to prove it, but some RIA capabilities do seem to | View post »

From requirements to a designed UI in 5 too-short days!

Posted by Optaros on 30 Jan 2008

When Swisscom Mobile challenged our Zurich team to design a total overhaul of the Labs public beta website in just 4.5 working days, some said that it couldn’t be done. And they were right – it took 5 days! This project proved the value of two things we pride ourselves on at Optaros: methodology and | View post »

Ajax Accessibility with Dojo

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Creating a richer experience in the browser using Ajax has often meant excluding, unintentionally but significantly, large portions of the browing population: users with disabilities relying on assisted browsing technologies like screenreaders. The W3C's Web Accessibility Initiaitve, which has long been the center of discussion for standards and technologies to make the web more accessible, | View post »

Webinar Presentation – Rich Internet Applications

Posted by John Eckman on 08 Nov 2007

A few weeks back, on Oct. 30th, my colleague Hugo Schotman and I presented an Optaros Webinar on Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we weren’t able to record the audio of the whole presentation, but the slides themselves are now available on the Optaros site: “Rich Internet Applications: The What, Why, When, and How” (pdf, 3.37 [...]

Next Generation of Customer Online Interaction

Posted by John Eckman on 11 Jul 2007

While most of us in the U.S. were enjoying the day off and the summer sunshine, my colleagues from Optaros Europe were having a webinar: “Enabling the next generation of customer online interaction.” They discuss a project Optaros did with Swisscom Hospitality Services as an example of the impact next generation Internet applications can have [...]