October 03, 2006
ALE: AJAX Linking and Embedding
Zimbra, the developers of one of the best Open Source communication platforms for the enterprise market, which runs completely within your browser has developed ALE. ALE is short for AJAX Linking and Embedding and is a specification on how to develop applications that can allow rich content be embedded within other pages all of which run within the web browser. Zimbra uses ALE in their advanced email client to allow content such as a table to be embedded into an email message in the browser, which can be edited, in place, still within the web browser. This specification is only for the most advanced AJAX developers as the specification is extremely void of content and really needs some work. However, even though the specification is thin the overall concept is extremely powerful and if taken up will allow for even greater capabilities within web-based applications.
Links
Zimbra Article on ALE
ALE Specification
