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    FOUJUI: Flash of Uninitialized JavaScript UI

    One of the challenges that comes with pure JavaScript UI is a nasty little user experience problem that I'm calling "Flash of Uninitialized JavaScript UI," or FOUJUI (rolls right off the tongue). FOUJI, similar to FOUC, occurs when: Your rich UI is initialized by JavaScript You rely...
    October 06, 2011
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    Using CORS with All (Modern) Browsers

    CORS is cool. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing is a (slowly) emerging technology for the web that finally gives async web operations a way to directly grab resources from different domains. In fact, I've already talked about it a couple of times on the Kendo UI blogs here and here. By...
    October 03, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Client-Side Hierarchical DataBinding to OData with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

    If you haven't heard, Odata is a Web protocol that exposes your data to the Web, allowing consumers to make queries through a set of URI parameters. RadGrid, Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX Grid control features a rich client-side API that enables you to easily bind to OData services and have all the paging, sorting and filtering done without ever posting the page to the server. That is all fine if your data is flat. Binding to hierarchical data, however, is another story. RadGrid officially supports hierarchical databinding on the server only. But let's go unofficial for a while. In this blog post we'll demonstrate an approach for detail table databinding...
    October 03, 2011
  • Web

    Fun with Remote Data and the Kendo UI Grid

    Love them or hate them, grids are a staple of user interfaces. While jQuery has made UI engineering remarkably easier on most of us, the grid is still a very iffy scenario when designing for the web. I have used jqGrid in the past on a...
    September 30, 2011
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Getting Touch Support in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps Now

    We here at Telerik always strive to help you deliver applications leveraging the latest and greatest industry trends from the moment that they are released. With touch-enabled devices gaining more popularity by each passing day, we surely don’t want you to miss out on the opportunity to build applications leveraging this exciting technology. Android, iOS and now even Windows 8 devices – they all use touch as their primary way of interaction. Some of you might even be reading this very post with one of these devices! What about your favorite set of ASP.NET AJAX controls? Tap and touch are...
    September 29, 2011