Comments on: MDA, SOA and Serverless AJAX: Our web stack defined

By: TechNation Australia » Blog Archive » Applebox - Your Video Store Reinvented

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:31:08 +0000

[...] It’s your classic Clicks and Mortar strategy but executed to perfection. The best bit? The whole site has been custom built by Simon so they are more agile and responsive than their competitors. (You can check out more of the technical details, including their pretty cool web stack, HERE) [...]

By: Apple iTunes Store Recreated w/ HTML & AJAX? | David Bisset: Web Designer, Coder, Wordpress Guru

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:10:49 +0000

[...] is a recreation (to an extent) of the iTunes store. According to their blog, they are using Ruby On Rails and “Serverless AJAX”. I wondered what the latter was, [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:01:51 +0000

Feel wrong jumping in here as it is all strange words to me but the name APPLEBOX refers to a device used in filming and does not have anything to do with apple mac. It’s a snappy memorable name that has a tie in with movies and film making. No sick jokes there! http://applebox.com.au/about/

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:15:28 +0000

Hi Ctran - The restriction on Safari is purely technical. When I developed APPLEBOX, Safari (apart from having a serious lack of debugging facility) didn’t support XPATH which I use to query the SOAP XML documents returned from my application services. That was version 2. With Safari version 3 now released, the situation is greatly improved. There’s XPATH, Drosera and DOM Inspection. So once I get the time, I’ll be reviewing Safari and bring support to it!

Eric - yep, you’re right. Once the V & C are downloaded, it’s DOM fairyland and there’s a huge amount of DHTML that goes on in the client!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:36:30 +0000

So, by “no dynamic markup” you mean that, once V and C are downloaded to client, there will be no more markup delivered from the server - BUT surely there will be dynamic changes to the markup on the client side - no?

By: ctran

ctran — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:07:32 +0000

Where’s support for Safari? Very nice UI!