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Web Frameworks are Passing the REST litmus test

After reading the excellent ☞ REST Litmus Test for Web Frameworks I was wondering what web frameworks are really passing it.

If you know of any please share it with me. Including links to the documentation/code for each of the points in the post will definitely be even more helpful.

I’ve submitted this question also on ☞ Hacker News and ☞ Reddit. Once I’ll get some results I’ll make sure to start updating this post.

iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Prepare your wallets for a long list of iPhone apps: 50!

The ones I liked from the post:

  • Source Viewer () or Web Source Viewer (free)
  • Analytics app ($5.99)

… so just a few from the long list. Maybe your wallet is safe though.

Safari JavaScript Console Trick

I have found an extremely simple and nice trick for using the Safari JavaScript console: the window.console object. It provides a couple of interesting functions:

for(var a in window.console) { 
  window.console.log(typeof window.console[a] + ':' + window.console[a]); 
}

function:function profileEnd() 
function:function count()
function:function assert()
function:function warn()
function:function info()
function:function profile()
function:function trace()
function:function timeEnd()
function:function dir()
function:function log()
function:function dirxml()
function:function error()
function:function debug()
function:function time()
function:function group()
function:function groupEnd()

I couldn’t find these functions documentation though.

You can read some more notable news on JavaScript.

JavaScript Notable News

dynaTrace Ajax

John Resig (of jQuery fame) reviews an AJAX tracing tool for Internet Explorer:

dynaTrace provides some information that I’ve never seen before - in any tool on any browser.

JavaScript Framework Matrix

An overview of the following JavaScript frameworks and their functions: jQuery, MooTools, The Dojo Toolkit, Prototype, Script.aculo.us, ExtJS, Adobe Spry, BBC Glow, Yahoo! UI Library

Learning Advanced JavaScript

An advanced JavaScript tutorial authored by John Resig.

Google Closure: JavaScript library

About the ☞ pros and ☞ cons of the ☞ new Google released JavaScript library.

Google Closure Useful Links

Notable: Collaborative Feedback for Websites

An interesting tool for providing feedback about websites (design, content, etc.). The team behind Notable is also maintaining an interesting ☞ blog. You probably have already seen around the internet other forms of capturing feedback about the site, but most of the time those are just forms or forums integrations, while Notable seems to offer more advanced options.

It is interesting to note how Notable team have started to promote their product. They have picked major websites and used Notable to provide feedback on their design:

You can find a more extensive review of Notable ☞ here.

Another tool I’ve mentioned in the past is LaunchSet which is helping you to manage the whole beta/alpha/private access and data for your new website/startup.

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