Archive of ajax
Supporting IE6 – a poison chalice or the holy grail?
One of the big benefits of Caplin’s browser-based SDP platform, Caplin Trader, is that it can run in virtually any browser without the need for plugins or special configuration. This is no mean feat for a complex, high performance, low latency trading portal framework written in JavaScript and running to…
Read MoreSilverlight for single dealer portals?
Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I am hearing (and asking) increasingly at the moment – so here’s…
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Portlets and Ajax
Developing portlets can be a frustrating experience, especially if you are used to technologies with lots of helpful information out there on the web. While lots of people are using portlets, it seems that few are writing about them. What should be a straightforward exercise in developing to a standard…
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What is the “real-time web”?
Are we really seeing the real-time web? The phrase “real-time web” has been streaming its way around the Internet for a while now. It’s presently being used to describe information being available in search results as soon as it has been published by its author. Examples of this are Twitter…
Read MoreHow to dynamically create a class definition for use with Mock4JS
Mock4JS is a really useful unit testing helper library that allows you to create mocks of your JavaScript classes. What it doesn’t presently support is mocking of objects that you can’t create an instance of yourself using new Class() or of objects that are dynamically created and have functions appended…
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