Just in case anybody needs instructions, contact the NCAA and its Division I-FCS, Division II and III football teams. They’ve had an actual playoff system for decades.
— Gene Wojciechowski
November, 2007
Nov27
Nov24
Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn’t). Exactly! I tire of JS framework wars for the same reason I tire of language wars: you should use whatever makes you happy. You’re not trying to get your framework of choice to “win”; there’s nothing to be won. Evangelism is a good thing; you ought to share your happiness with others. Zealotry is not.
Nov7
Chris wants: stability, interoperability, security, and functionality, in that order. Yet after repeated requests to provide specific, detailed, technical reasons why ES4 doesn’t address all four of those priorities (which it does, IMHO), no answer. I have yet to see a single detailed explanation of how ES4 would “break the web.” Not from Chris, Doug, or anyone else at Microsoft. Would love to see such discussion, truly. Send me links if you know of any.
— Neil Mix
Chris wants: stability, interoperability, security, and functionality, in that order. Yet after repeated requests to provide specific, detailed, technical reasons why ES4 doesn’t address all four of those priorities (which it does, IMHO), no answer. I have yet to see a single detailed explanation of how ES4 would “break the web.” Not from Chris, Doug, or anyone else at Microsoft. Would love to see such discussion, truly. Send me links if you know of any.
— Neil Mix
Pseudo-custom events in Prototype 1.6
One major goal of frameworks is to minimize the amount of code branching an individual developer has to do. Usually that means the framework does the branching itself, then builds around it an API that will work in all major browsers. By that metric, support for custom events in Prototype 1.6 might be our biggest …
