Tag Archives: vim

How IE Mangles The Design Of JavaScript Libraries

A lot of hyperbole gets thrown around about how painful IE 6 and 7 make the world of JS development, and so I thought I’d do a bit of cataloging to help those using Dojo understand why it’s built the way it is and indeed, why all JS widget libraries suffer similar design warts. I [...]

Kris Zyp Joins SitePen

Some time back I posted about an opening in SitePen’s R&D “group”. The responses I got back were astounding, and I couldn’t be happier that Kris Zyp is joining me to help work on things that we feel are important to the future of the open web. This is yet another high point in our [...]

The W3C Cannot Save Us

Things are finally moving over in CSS-land. On the positive side CSS column layouts are looking pretty nice, having dropped their dependency on the the janktastic “advanced” layout module and there’s some initial movement on improving the CSS-OM. But all is not well, nor has it been for a long, long time. No work on [...]

The Non-Relational DB Strikes Back!

When I started at Jot, one of the things I fell most in love with about the platform was the way that application developers on the system never, ever had to think about “the database”. You just had nodes (JS objects which could serialize themselves to XML) and nodes had properties. Setting a property on [...]

If You’re Not Already Subscribed To Mike Shaver’s Blog…

…this would be a good time to go add it to your feed reader of choice. His latest post on Adobe’s attempts to increase the social acceptability of their closed platform does a great job at distilling some of the history and strategies being employed.