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Ajaxian has published their second annual Ajaxian.com survey.

The first three by categories are:

Most Popular Ajax Frameworks

1. Prototype - 43%
2. Script.aculo.us - 33%
3. Dojo - 19%

Most Popular Ajax Platforms

1. PHP - 50%
2. Java - 37%
3. .NET - 16%

Read the original article here.

Update from Joe Walker’s Blog (with a Java perspective):

Most Popular Java / Ajax Frameworks

1. DWR - 53%
2. GWT - 15%
3. AjaxTags - 7%

Today I stumbled on an article from 5ThirtyOne about an IE7 JavaScript library simply called IE7.

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6

Impressive…

Max Kiesler as posted in his site an article with 60 more AJAX tutorials.

These examples and how-to’s represent the best tutorials that I’ve personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with instructions and source code.

Read the 60 More AJAX Tutorials full article.

When you’re a web developer, you always keep running into annoying Internet Explorer bugs, so you need to hack your way around. Now with the IE7 out, a lot of the old CSS hacks don’t work anymore, and those that do still work, can’t be relied on to work in the future.

IE has a feature, called conditional comments, which could help us. As a hack it’s quite useful. IE 7 will support this too, and it even allows you to detect different versions of IE.

Here’s an example:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
    <style type="text/css">
        @import "ie_hacks.css";
    </style>
<![endif]-->

[if lte IE 6] means “if less than or equal to IE 6″. Other possibilities are:

[if IE]

if Internet Explorer

[if gte IE 5]

if greater than or equal to IE 5

[if lte IE 5]

if less than or equal to IE 5

[if IE 6]

if Internet Explorer 6

[if IE 5.5]

will work too,

[if IE 7.0b]

as will this for IE 7 beta.

Max Kiesler has posted on his site, a listing of 50 different Ajax toolkits and frameworks, and a listing of 30 different AJAX Tutorials.

1. Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks
2. Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials

Of course, the lists are by no means complete, but they do include not only the “big names” but also several of the smaller, lighter libraries the web has to offer.

The first official release of the Atlas Toolkit is ready!

For controls and templates that make adding client-side functionality to your site incredibly easy see “Atlas” Control Toolkit.