In this seemingly unlimited stream of AJAX articles and frameworks, let me present you to SACK. SACK is a light-weight AJAX API, written by Gregory Wild-Smith.

Gregory writes: “I’ve seen AJAX solutions like SAJAX or Dojo, and they haven’t really interested me. They seem to bloated and, for the most part, rather insecure.
This is mostly because they appear to be trying to do things with AJAX that it can do, but should it?“

* Sack of AJAX
* AJAX - We fear change
* Shiny New Sack
* AJAX : Whiter than White?

* Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) Docs

rohanl writes “Apple has responded to recent criticisms from the KHTML developers by providing a live CVS repository (including all history) of WebCore, JavaScriptCore and the newly open sourced WebKit, public mailing list, IRC channel and bug database. Details at the new webkit.opendarwin.org“

Slashdot | Apple Releases WebKit

Introducing Calendula - “The Astounding DHTML Calendar Component” to the public, created back in 1999, I thought it was about time this piece of code to be released as Open Source. If you are new to JavaScript you may find it easier to build upon this codebase, instead of building it all from scratch. Anyway it’s out in the open now, use it as you please within the terms of the CC-GNU GPL license.

* Calendula Main Page

* Calendula Demo

* Download ZIP Archive

This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.

ECMAScript for XML (E4X) has been introduced in the beta builds of Mozilla Suite 1.8. It is an extension to the ECMAScript standardized scripting language, and allows the use of native XML primitives/objects, in other words it is no longer necessary to embed XML as Strings.

Check out my latest E4X Examples at the Codepit.

* 99 Bottles of Beer in JavaScript v1.0