Burningbirdwritings about JavaScript/ECMAScript and Node
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ajaxian has a pushback at Prototype criticism. Among the criticism is: A lot of javascript tutorials written today are based on the prototype framework. So, I thought it would be nice to see how other people use prototype.js . What I found is that the majority of people use it only because they […]
M David Peterson points out a comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis over at the Ongoing post on the JSON/XML thing: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis (Dec 21 2006, at 18:52) Anders: It’s a stretch to call the man who designed both RSS 2.0 and OPML an “XML partisan.” Toro! Toro! Olé!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dare Obasanjo and I don’t always agree, but today I agree with him completely when he writes about the tightening of data from web services: The obvious reaction was to make the Google and del.icio.us announcements into a REST vs. SOAP or XML vs. JSON story since geeks like to turn every […]
The Web Standards Project points to a post, Dear JavaScript Library Developers by Chris Heilmann, which makes some excellent points about the difficulties in using today’s JS libraries. In particular, I want to point out Chris’ last point: Don’t play the “mine is smaller than yours” card. It gives the wrong impression to new developers as they might be […]
I’m really peeved at the Firebug folks. Here I thought I was finished with the first chapter of “Adding Ajax”. Now I have to edit it to include a section that starts with, Before we jump into how to add Ajax effects to your pages, you’ll need to download Firefox and install both it and Firebug. In my […]