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Wednesday, 8th July 2009

BBC: Glow (via) The BBC have released Glow, their jQuery-like JavaScript library developed in house over the past few years. It’s open source under the Apache license.

# 3:25 pm / bbc, glow, javascript, jquery, open-source

John Resig on Glow. John criticises Glow for reinventing the wheel—BBC insiders respond in the comments below.

# 7:24 pm / bbc, glow, javascript, john-resig, libraries

Insofar as it encouraged workaday web professionals to recognize that there are such things as best practices independent of particular browser implementations, I think XHTML can be termed successful. Insofar as it got people thinking about the possibility of a better Web ahead of us, I think XHTML can be termed successful. Insofar as it changed the popular conception of professional web design and thrust standards into the forefront, I think XHTML can be termed successful.

James Bennett

# 7:36 pm / james-bennett, web-standards, xhtml

Scope. Matt Webb’s opening keynote at this year’s reboot11. You owe it to yourself to read it.

# 8:15 pm / matt-webb, reboot, scope, talks

YQL: INSERT INTO internet. insert into twitter.status (status,username,password) values (“Playing with INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE in YQL”, “twitterusername”,“twitterpassword”)

# 8:19 pm / apis, sql, twitter, yahoo, yql

Microsoft was slowing development of new versions of Internet Explorer in the hope that Web-based applications would not be able to compete with Windows applications, and Windows applications would keep people locked in to the Windows operating system. Thus XHTML2 was developed with no expectation that the leading Web browser would ever implement it.

David Baron

# 8:30 pm / david-baron, ie, microsoft, web-standards, xhtml, xhtml2

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