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JSF getElementById hack

Monday, December 12th, 2005

If you’re new to using JSF like me and are trying to figure out how the heck to use javascript’s document.getLementById () with JSF’s dynamically assigned HTML ids, this might be a solution, if an ugly one:

j4j:idProxy

Interaction Design Patterns

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Welie.com: patterns in Interaction Design. Also, time-tripper.com: UI Patterns and Techniques

Ajax: a New Approach to Web Applications

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Jesse James Garrett: Ajax: a New Approach to Web Applications

Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.

I’m looking into this for the next version of an app my company recently released. Very interesting stuff.