Bowser based XSL transformations offer a handy and powerful way in integrating XML data to web applications. In combination with HTTP server requests, as introduced by Ajax, the data structures can be loaded and rendered in common HTML code. Reuse of the documents inreases and a server-side parsing and transformation becomes obsolete. more »
The rise of Ajax has led to a development of interactive UI elements for HTML pages. A realm for the use of Flash in the past, JavaScript, CSS and asynchronus data transfer brought up a bunch of interface widgets ready to use in plain webpages. Breaking free of the “click -and-wait” paradigm that ruled web development since the beginnig, developers are now free to bring new and fresh features to to websites to create an unprecedented user exeprience. more »
Extensible Stylesheet Language, or short XSL, is a family of related technologies designed to transofrm XML data.
This definition may seem not very spectecular, but the truth is far from the matter. XSLT is an often unused and underestimated technology. Current browsers like IE and Firefox have an integrated XSLT parser and are fully capable of doing tranformations on their own. Using XSLT in browsers is very straight forward and opens the door for a lot of nice and handy ideas. more »
My first experiment with processing, an open source programming languages designed for coding visual images, animation and interactions. more »
The Lorenz Attractor, first introduced by Edward Lorenz in 1963, is a 3-dimensional structure corresponding to the long-term behavior of a chaotic flow. The result is a remarkable figure, a butterfly shape. more »
