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  Made the Ajaxian Showcase!

  Things have been bubbling along quite nicely here at APPLEBOX. As we're a local video store, our focus at this point is on building local membership. In our area (around our shop in Fairfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), that's typically a non-tech crowd who use APPLEBOX simply because it's a better way to rent DVD's than going to Video Ezy up the road.

  So to satisfy the inner-geek within myself (and pop my head up amongst the techs out there), I recently posted a run down on our web stack and development approach: http://applebox.com.au/blog/2007/12/mda-soa-and-serverless-ajax-our-web-stack-defined/

  And wow! We got picked up by Ajaxian and featured in their showcase section: http://ajaxian.com/archives/applebox-itunes-in-serverless-ajax . Yikes, the traffic spike was great , and even better to know our little server chugged along quite happily without missing a beat.

  So we're still here, alive and kicking! 

  Posted 09 Dec 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  APPLEBOX doors have opened!

  Nice!! warms the cockles of me heart

  Posted 25 Sep 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  Getting Invites

  yep - I reckon the would! It will at least give me an idea of what I'm being invited to ...

  Posted 24 Sep 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  APPLEBOX

  ... glad to have moved on from that ...

  Posted 20 Aug 07 in Beta Testers

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  Latest Iteration

  Hi bjtitus - I support both IE 6 and 7, but not 5.5 or earlier. Did you encounter a problem?
  
  Re Safari - I use XPATH for querying the SOAP XML documents I get back from my ajax calls. Safari has only added support for XPATH in its webkit nightlies - which I think will only make its way into public use in Safari v3 (coming with Leopard?). Whilst there are javascript XPATH implementations out there - they are slow. I'd rather drop XPATH and either read the XML DOM structure directly, or auto translate all reponses into JSON at the browser, or rejig and return JSON from the server. BUT if Safari in Leopard (hopefully v3) has XPATH in place, then I may be able to stick with it.
  
  I have also found a number of CSS deficiencies in Safari - I'm hopeful I should be able to work around them. Unfortunately, Safari as a development platform has just been behind the game. With Firefox I have the DOM Inspector, Debugger, Firebug - its outstanding. With IE I have the dev toolbar which whilst nowhere near Firefox's capability, it still has a DOM viewer and debugger. With Safari there had been nothing for way too long. For a long time JavaScript errors were written to the OS console which is just ridiculous. It's finally got its own javascript console now, and Drosera and the Webkit nightlies look promising. It really has been a while since I've properly looked at Safari again - so I do look forward to revisiting it once I get the time ....
  
  I develop on the Mac, and with Safari now available on windows machines - I definitely want to support it.
  

  Posted 16 Aug 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  Design and Usability

  Fair enough! Whilst the chrome and genre pages do borrow queues from iTunes, the rest of the app diverges - the movie page, the covers 'see all' view, the search action, the membership section, the custom collections (eg star wars) - they are all different. Some people have said they love the iTunes familiarity, others say its not for them. However, I do see a divergence from the current iTunes feel as I evolve it.

  Posted 14 Aug 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  Latest iteration bugs/issues

  And yep - the genre link through I aim to do as well. At the moment you can only select genres as the are presented at the start (down the lhs). I'm not sure if I'll shunt a movie genre link-throug back to the front genre 'homepage' (which gives all the latest releases/just added/coming soon and custom collections) or just go into a list sorted by release date ... lots to still do ...

  Posted 14 Aug 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  Web 2.0 or not?

  And yeah - if you had thoughts on mashing applebox up some way - I'm all ears!

  Posted 13 Aug 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback

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  Lost Post

  the window event handler onbeforeunload should do it!

  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window

   

  Posted 03 Aug 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  OUTAGE

  Thanks Alan, will definitely keep Stephen in mind - cheers

  Posted 20 Jul 07 in APPLEBOX Feedback