Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

SlickSpeed CSS Selectors Test tests the CSS selectors in every browser, whether or not the browser included xpath. It is written in simple PHP and plain JavaScript. No framework is used in the suite JavaScript file, as the point of it is to test frameworks against each other. This avoids favoritism. Also, each framework runs in its own iframe, so no prototyping conflicts can happen. So that we can have a rough idea of the speed of running the CSS selectors.

Link: http://mootools.net/slickspeed/

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Census RIA Data Loading Benchmarks is a Flex application to demostrate various methods of loading data in RIAs and see how these methods impact performance, bandwidth and client momery usage. Census renders a large chunk of data using Ajax ( HTML, SOAP, XML and JSON ), Dojo, Flex ( SOAP to AS and E4X, XML to AS and E4X, AMF3 and Paged). We can see the Server Exec Time, Transfer Time, Parse Time and Render Time easily.

Link: http://www.jamesward.org/census/

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Building a web application can be a lot of fun. However, there is a problem if we are having a web app with users in more languages than just English. Where do you start with internationalisation? Steve Ellis published a great article about How To Give Your Web Application an International Appeal which breaks into two parts. In Part I Steve Ellis covered the basics of internationalisation. In Part II he takes us around the world with several real life examples, like tricky plurals, dynamic data, localising images, video and audio, and more.

Original Article: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/give-your-web-app-international…

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Particletree has written a detailed report – Web App Autopsy about 4 very different web application companies that are at varying stages of their life cycle. In addition to age and size, these companies vary in their business models, programming languages and views on approaching the web as a platform. Also They are sharing code line counts, business processes, conversion rates, support requests revenues per customer. This information can help us identify some trends about web application.

Original Article: http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/

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