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I have been having a bit of fun with cartoons recently. There are a few good Ajax sites that help you do cartoons such as Toonlets, Toondoo (From AdventNet, the Indian company behind Zoho and others), and Pixton.

And a bunch more over here.

Got some fun ideas for Ajax related comics?

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January has started the month out in some style. We are seeing a lot of news that shows the Web may actually be moving forward a little. One sign of that is the trickle of news that comes out of Redmond on IE 8. IE8 Compatibility with X-UA-Compatible sparked debate throughout the entire Web community, and when all is said and done, it shows you what happens when you do not have good early communication. Just work with us. Before you ship. Chat with Hixie and get involved in HTML 5 now.

JavaScript continues to thrive and move throughout the stack. First we had the news of Aptana Jaxer, which allows you to write your Ajax code and have it run on the server. This even means munging with the DOM and having it all work and spit out HTML. This isn’t your old ASP JScript.

I also had the pleasure of chatting with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails: JavaScript MVC on the server where we discussed the implications of having a Rails port in JavaScript.

The browsers keep getting better, and we saw real support for Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest in Firefox 3 and the like. I have been talking over Google Gears future APIs that may be in early stage work, or just ideas in my head. I think that we are getting the word out about Gears not being just about Offline, but a tool to upgrade the Web on the fly.

We are seeing more of the social networks getting into the mix. Facebook released an Animation library and then followed that up with a full JavaScript Client Library.

And then Google just released the Social Graph API.

A great month, and here is to the next one:

JavaScript

• Aptana releases Jaxer, Ajax server built on Mozilla
• Rhino on Rails: JavaScript MVC on the server
• Secure String Interpolation in JavaScript
• DomAPI 4.5: New, improved, and more free
• Favicon access via JavaScript
• Graceful Degradation of Firebug Console Object
• Eloquent JavaScript
• Making Ajax Applications Scream on the Client
• Ajax.NET: Move to ASP.NET Ajax with PageMethods
• Dean Edwards IE7.js 2.0 Release
• Autotesting JavaScript in Rails
• Apache CouchDB: Congrats to IBM and Damian Katz
• JavaScript: It’s Just Not Validation!
• window.onload: another solution to get it going
• EditArea: Rich Sourcecode Editor
• Survey on Ajax IDEs and development
• Beyond DOM
• Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest in Firefox 3
• XUL Templates
• Accessible Google Charts
• Highslide JS: JavaScript Thumbnail Viewer
• PBwiki JavaScript Testing
• Qooxdoo 0.7.3 Release
• Eclipse RAP Demonstration
• Debug apps with Drosera for Windows
• MooTools 1.2 Beta 2 Released, Adds New Element Storage
• The Art and Science of JavaScript Games
• Sexy JavaScript?
• Library Agnostic LightBox
• Facebook releases Animation library
• Facebook releases JavaScript Client Library
• Lily, JavaScript Visual Programming Tool
• Dreamweaver Users Rejoice! Support for JS Libs Now Available.

Prototype

• Prototype 1.6.0.2 security and performance improvements
• Prototype: new cheat sheet and in place editor
• Do you have a pretty date?

Dojo

• dojo.moj.oe: parody of script.aculo.us homepage in Dojo
• Bunkai: Dojo Interactive Workbench

Ext

• Lipsiadmin: Rails 2.0 Ext Admin
• Ext 2.0.1 Released, Community Projects Continue to Grow
• Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin for Rails
• Ext 2.0 and ColdFusion
• Simplicity: PHP Ajax Framework using Ext
• ExtTLD: Create Ext components with XML

jQuery

• jQuery Validation Plugin v1.2 Updated
• jQuery ScrollTo Plugin

GWT

• GWT Videos from GWT Conference Available
• Cool and useful GWT Solutions

YUI

• YUI Grid CSS and Grid Builder
• YUI ready to celebrate 2nd Birthday

DWR

• DWR/TIBCO GI Integration: gi.js
• Book: Practical DWR 2

Gears

• Google Gears Future APIs
• Buxfer: Another Personal Finance 2.0 Site
• XSTM: Shared Transacted Memory

Flash / AIR

• as3Query: jQuery port to ActionScript
• CommandProxy: Integrating AIR and .NET
• Adobe AIR is on Fire

JSON

• JSON 2.0: Libraries and browser support
• JsonSQL: JSON parser, SQL style
• JSONLib: JSON Extensions a la E4X

Browsers / HTML Standards

• IE8 Compatibility with X-UA-Compatible
• How IE Mangles The Design Of JavaScript Libraries
• The IE7 auto-rollout: fact and fiction
• John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, Interviewed
• Mozilla hires Aza Raskin and other Humanized folk
• Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies
• Sub pixel fun with browsers
• HTML 5 Public Working Draft Released
• Getting HTML 5 styles in IE 7+
• Animated PNG in Firefox 3
• Microsoft JavaScript Memory Leak Detector

CSS / Design

• Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline
• Acid 3 and the future of memory leaks
• Effect.wobble and Effect.illuminate: iPhone effects in the browser

Comet

• Native Comet Support for Browsers
• 20,000 Reasons that Comet Scales

Security

• Is using a JS packer a security threat?
• Book recommendation: Ajax Security by Hoffman and Sullivan
• XSS: Flash and Rails
• Dangers of Remote Scripting

Editorial

• Zed Shaw interview on Rails community, enterprise, Ajax, patents, and a whole lot more
• How widgets go viral
• A Study of Ajax Performance Issues
• You Used JavaScript to Write WHAT?
• Most Relevant Browsers of 2009

Showcase

• Triggit: WYSIWYG Content Insertion Tool and Platform
• Drinking offline at the Happy Hour while being openly social
• Tastebook: Rails Ajax Cookbook App
• Dominos: Changing the feedback model
• Protagonize: Choose your own Web 2.0 Adventure
• Mibbit: Ajax-based IRC Client
• iDesktop: YouTube Viewer
• Photophlow: Interactive Community Flickr
• CNN Politics Election Center
• AjaxSwing 2.0: AJAX front end for Swing applications
• AjaxRain.com Gets a Facelift
• Flemish Politics Election Center
• HTML Purifier 3.0
• Winter Holiday Christmas Lights
• Amaltas SVG Drawing Tool
• CuePrompter: Javascript Teleprompter
• Roxer: Simple web page creation and editing
• New Twist on Date Pickers
• Audience Measurement Demo
• O’Reilly Maker
• Less maintenance code tutorials with Ajax Code Display