Search in reference and comments in tutorials

We have added a quick lookup search and commenting capabilities in tutorials.

Introduction to Ample SDK by Béla Varga (in German)

Béla Varga made a nice 5 minutes presentation of Ample SDK platform and some of its features at the Webmontag an der Münchener Mediadesign Hochschule. Here is the video of his presentation.

February in Ample SDK

On 23rd February 2010 we released Ample SDK 0.9.0: New JavaScript Charts, SVG 1.1 implementation for Internet Explorer and more.

November in Ample SDK

As we promised at the Ajax Experience and SVG Open conferences, and later on announced in a blog post, Ample SDK is Open-Source project as of 1st November, 2009. Project Changes, New development, Testing set up, Other updates.

Set to go Open-Source

We are all set to go Open-Source in a couple of days

Sandbox to try code online

You can now start playing with Ample SDK project and its technologies without having to download and deploy the project on your site!

New Tutorials section to help you get started

We've split up documentation into tutorials and reference. Now Reference contains pure API-related details, while Tutorials hosts guides and articles.

SVG in Internet Explorer: Approached the edge

An entire week was spent on lifting up our SVG implementation for Internet Explorer. Here is the list of improvements and additions.

Drag And Drop / Resize UI managers enhancements

The drag and drop UI manager in Ample SDK is modelled after Internet Explorer's one, that had been existed in that browser for some 9 years already...

SMIL 3.0 in Ample SDK

In the latest weekly build there is SMIL 3.0 selected modules implemented...

Getting ready for tomorrow: Ample SDK to use HTML5 doctype

As an ongoing effort towards enabling standards-based development platform, we have made a firm decision to advice Ample SDK application developers to start using HTML5 doctype.

Introduction to the Resize Manager in Ample SDK

The Resize Manager in Ample SDK is modeled after Internet Explorer implementation with a bit of goodies added on top. It uses same resizezstart/resize/resizeend events but also makes use of CSS min-/max-|width/height properties to define constraints as well as dynamic :resize pseudo-class applied at the time of resize operation.

JSON object: almost native support for older browsers

In the upcoming release of Ample SDK there will be JSON object support.

Upcoming change to ::pseudo-elements / :pseudo-classes syntax

The order of specifying pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements in CSS to be changed.

Caught in development - Ample SDK plugin for Aptana IDE

John started working on Aptana integration plugin.

Oh, these confusing default namespaces in DOM

Apparently some (wink!) people have troubles understanding how DOM treats default namespaces. To clarify the issue, let us consider a piece of XML parsed in an Namespaces-aware DOM implementation.

Upcoming Ample SDK weekly build to run in Adobe Air

Ample SDK is now capable of running in Adobe Air.

Objects signatures changed

Recently we found out that object signature implementation was actually wrong. That is now corrected and the object signatures in Ample SDK changed.

Experimental support for SVG 1.2 Tiny in Ample SDK

As of the nightly build of 14th January 2009 Ample SDK gets experimental implementation of some SVG modules that work fine in IE. See the demo.