Showing posts with label javascript. Show all posts
Showing posts with label javascript. Show all posts
28 October 2011

Mozilla's Brendan Eich on JavaScript - and Microsoft Buying Netscape

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It seems so long ago now, but for those of us lucky enough (and old enough) to have been there, the launch of Netscape's 0.9 version o...
02 June 2009

Why Open Source isn't Tiddly for BT

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I'd come across TiddlyWiki before, but never really got what it was about.... On Open Enterprise blog .
24 March 2009

And RMS Spake, and it Was Good

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As well as being a great coder, RMS is a fine writer (he made a number of excellent suggestions when I sent him rough drafts of the relevant...
07 March 2008

Enter the (Komodo) Dragon

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On Open Enterprise blog .
26 November 2007

Why Javascript, not Flash? - Ask Zoho

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I've only just come across this, perhaps the best summary of why using Flash is the wrong way to create Web apps: 1. Native to the Web ...
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06 November 2007

How Do You Do, Dojo?

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New one on me: Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib,...
19 October 2007

Under Slashdot's Bonnet

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Everybody knows that Google runs on scadzillions of GNU/Linux boxes, but now we also know the details about Slashdot's Penguin power : ...
11 September 2007

Open Designs

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Although Web pages are usually regarded as content, there can be a fair amount of code behind them too in the form of scripting and cascadin...
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06 September 2007

Enter the Open Komodo Dragon

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I've always been struck by how little known the company ActiveState is, given that it's worked with many open source languages such...
05 September 2007

Is Silverlight for GNU/Linux Moonshine?

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Hm, don't know what to think about this : Over the last few months we've been working to enable Silverlight support on Linux, and to...
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11 July 2007

The Secret World of S5

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Hm, I'd somehow missed this before: S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run ...
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29 May 2007

Will Microsoft Be Assimilated?

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I knew that I knew nothing about aQuantive. Here, for example, is something rather important that I didn't know I didn't know: Inf...
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22 December 2006

Open Source: Just the Ticket for Librarians

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Here's a well-written story about how librarians have undertaken a major open source project with great success: The system, Evergreen,...
28 July 2006

Aptana: Apt for Success?

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The line-up of cross-platform open source apps is pretty impressive, except in one area: Web design. Until now, all we've really had is...
23 February 2006

The Blogification of the Cyber Union

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I suppose it was inevitable that Google would go from being regarded as quite the dog's danglies to being written off as a real dog'...
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03 February 2006

Open Source's Best-Kept Secret

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Ajax is short for Asynchronous Javascript + XML; it enables a Web page to be changed in the browser on the fly, without needing to refer bac...
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