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By: New Atom data store for Dojo « SOS

New Atom data store for Dojo « SOS — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:07:58 +0000

[...] a Dojo data store with the very very cool Django templating language package in DojoX, dojox.dtl. Alex recently checked in a patch to dojox.dtl that enables the use of dojo.data stores directly in [...]

By: FBS Blog » Blog Archive » Tying The Pieces Together

FBS Blog » Blog Archive » Tying The Pieces Together — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:40:22 +0000

[...] Last week, I read a post by Alex Russell called The W3C Can’t Save Us. The post deals with web browser (HTML, CSS, etc.) standards and how they seem stuck and lacking innovation, but the ideas are instructive to those of us in real estate, too: It’s clear then that vendors in the market are the ones who deploy new technologies which improve the situation. The W3C has the authority to standardize things, but vendors have all the power when it comes to actually making those things available. Ten years ago, we counted on vendors introducing new and awesome things into the wild and then we yelled at them to go standardize. It mostly worked. Today, we yell at the standards bodies to introduce new and awesome things and yell at the browser vendors to implement them, regardless of how unrealistic they may be. It doesn’t work. See the problem? [...]

By: Microformats and the semantic web

Microformats and the semantic web — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:59:32 +0000

[...] The need for markup that is semantic but not as semantic as the semantic web proposed to us seems big. Alex Russell writes a nice peace on his previous employer’s wiki-like product Jotspot (a post in which he, for incomprehensible reasons, attacked Jason Fried of 37signals, something for which he later apologized, but semantic issues can clearly upset). [...]