A New Identity for Web Services
Jason Levitt describes the newly burgeoning field of web authentication APIs,
including Yahoo's BBAuth and Google's AuthSub.
Flash to the Rescue
Using Flash, Jason Levitt shows another variation of a workaround to the
limitations of XMLHttpRequest object, the foundation of
Ajax.
JSON and the Dynamic Script Tag: Easy, XML-less Web Services for JavaScript
Jason Levitt returns with a piece explaining how to use AJAX and JSON to interact
with web services from JavaScript in a seamless, cross-domain, cross-browser
fashion.
Fixing AJAX: XMLHttpRequest Considered Harmful
Jason Levitt shows us how to work around XmlHttpRequest restrictions in order to
get more joy from third-party web services.
Fun with Amazon's Simple Queue Service
Jason Levitt offers a detailed introduction to Amazon's Simple Queue Service
(SQS), as well as a sample chat room application using client-side Javascript and
Amazon's
SQS.