As I understand it, this is the final step to deploying Javascript 2.0 which was sceduled to be included in Firefox 3 anyway, but since Macromedia/Adobe have been using it for awhile, this helps get the ball rolling faster and allows (as mentioned) better integration. This will also mean that XUL will have the same script engine as Flex.
It's not just Web 2.0 however. Anything done in Javascript can use the new OOP language features. Microsoft has been using a form of ECMA 4 as well, but it's anybody's guess as to when IE will get it.
Typical, a gamer that thinks that playing games is the only thing anybody does on a computer.
As a developer, I tax much more of the OS than I would if I played games. In fact there are many categories of business customers and professionals that do have stability problems with all versions of Windows due to the nature of their work.
Neither Linux nor OS X, (along with several other OS's I can think of), have the performance issues that XP has. I've seen it for myself many times.
Actually I believe that Safari got it's ACID2 compliance almost solely from the efforts of David Hyatt. I really don't think the number of developers is the problem.
IBM has actually done this kind of work for a while, but unfortunately I don't think we are talking about CPU chips. The articles about this that I have read before have been about RF chips, hence the reference to cell phones. The author of the article apparently doesn't get it or neglected to mention this. Still an achievement but I doubt you'll be seeing this technology used in CPU's any time soon. It may mean more spectrum for the FCC to dole out in 7 years however.
This article is crap! I have spent a good part of a year modifying PHP based open source CMS and CRM systems for clients and have been dismayed by the quality of the code. None of these projects appear to enforce coding guidelines as do PEAR and several PHP 5 based frameworks that are beginning to emerge. This is the fault of the programmers not the language. Yes there are a few features in PHP that are a pain or inherently insecure, but frankly I don't know a GOOD PHP developer that uses them or that doesn't use standard workarounds to avoid using them.
In fact so many of these projects that promote the products they push as professional solutions don't even leverage the full capabilities of what IS offered in PHP 4 in terms of using classes. Yes PHP 5 OO is much better but in the little time I have had recently to code my own apps I have been able to code PHP 4 apps that are much cleaner than any of that junk, just by taking better care and encapsulating code into basic OO structure.
Yes Perl is great and so is Ruby/Rails and python, but if the examples available in the open source community of what a professional app (such as a CMS or blogging package) looks like in PHP is shoddily done, then of course it will hurt the rep of the language.
When you have applications written by people that can't even decide whether to use "first_name" or "firstname" or "firstName" for a form field consistently across an application you know you'll have trouble deeper in the code.
I went to work for a small GIS (geographical information systems) company that wanted to add web development to their services. This company was a staunch Windows only (in fact MS only) shop. I went to work on a site for their biggest client (a city in the midwest) and the first problem I ran in to was that they insisted that the client be allowed to modify documents with MS Front Page. i tried to tell them that FP was a toy but it was hard enough to convince my boss (who knew nothing about html) to allow me to use Dreamweaver and Homesite.
In a desparate attempt to save the html of the site from being totallly raped by people with no html experience using a piece of crap editor I wrote some special generator applications for the client that would allow standardized changes to pages and allow access to only what the client needed to be changed. I got no support from my boss (and in fact was scolded for spending time on it) and was never allowed to attend meetings with the client to plead my case.
Whats worse is that every time a client would open a frameset or certain other pages in FP it would break the page in some way that I still don't understand without actually altering the html. These documents would not even open in Homesite and would have to be cut and pasted to be fixed (by re saving and reposting).
The only browser they cared about was IE and yet I was required to make sure that the site complied with accessability guidlines as this was a city government web site.
At one point I found out that the look and feel designs that they were feeding me were copied verbatum from a city site in Canada. The site (escept for the front page which some guy from the water dept. kept dicking with) ended up looking exactly like this site. I kept wondering up till that point why all other designs were rejected. In additing they insisted against my protests on stealing a Java applet they found on the web somewhere that clearly stated the need for licensing (a cheesy text scrolling thing)
This company finally went under but not before I was let go because supposedly my work was not as ""comparable" to another developer they had just hired to do ASP work.
Never mind not a soul there understood a thing about html, javascript, java or any other web technology I was working with. One day my boss turns to the VB developer and asks "I can't remember which one is it that I don't like? Java or Javascript?" He didn't know what either one was.
It's been very hard to get back on my feet after this but I did learn a lot.
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As I understand it, this is the final step to deploying Javascript 2.0 which was sceduled to be included in Firefox 3 anyway, but since Macromedia/Adobe have been using it for awhile, this helps get the ball rolling faster and allows (as mentioned) better integration. This will also mean that XUL will have the same script engine as Flex. It's not just Web 2.0 however. Anything done in Javascript can use the new OOP language features. Microsoft has been using a form of ECMA 4 as well, but it's anybody's guess as to when IE will get it.
Typical, a gamer that thinks that playing games is the only thing anybody does on a computer.
As a developer, I tax much more of the OS than I would if I played games. In fact there are many categories of business customers and professionals that do have stability problems with all versions of Windows due to the nature of their work.
Neither Linux nor OS X, (along with several other OS's I can think of), have the performance issues that XP has. I've seen it for myself many times.
Actually I believe that Safari got it's ACID2 compliance almost solely from the efforts of David Hyatt. I really don't think the number of developers is the problem.
IBM has actually done this kind of work for a while, but unfortunately I don't think we are talking about CPU chips. The articles about this that I have read before have been about RF chips, hence the reference to cell phones. The author of the article apparently doesn't get it or neglected to mention this. Still an achievement but I doubt you'll be seeing this technology used in CPU's any time soon. It may mean more spectrum for the FCC to dole out in 7 years however.
This article is crap! I have spent a good part of a year modifying PHP based open source CMS and CRM systems for clients and have been dismayed by the quality of the code. None of these projects appear to enforce coding guidelines as do PEAR and several PHP 5 based frameworks that are beginning to emerge. This is the fault of the programmers not the language. Yes there are a few features in PHP that are a pain or inherently insecure, but frankly I don't know a GOOD PHP developer that uses them or that doesn't use standard workarounds to avoid using them. In fact so many of these projects that promote the products they push as professional solutions don't even leverage the full capabilities of what IS offered in PHP 4 in terms of using classes. Yes PHP 5 OO is much better but in the little time I have had recently to code my own apps I have been able to code PHP 4 apps that are much cleaner than any of that junk, just by taking better care and encapsulating code into basic OO structure. Yes Perl is great and so is Ruby/Rails and python, but if the examples available in the open source community of what a professional app (such as a CMS or blogging package) looks like in PHP is shoddily done, then of course it will hurt the rep of the language. When you have applications written by people that can't even decide whether to use "first_name" or "firstname" or "firstName" for a form field consistently across an application you know you'll have trouble deeper in the code.
I went to work for a small GIS (geographical information systems) company that wanted to add web development to their services. This company was a staunch Windows only (in fact MS only) shop. I went to work on a site for their biggest client (a city in the midwest) and the first problem I ran in to was that they insisted that the client be allowed to modify documents with MS Front Page. i tried to tell them that FP was a toy but it was hard enough to convince my boss (who knew nothing about html) to allow me to use Dreamweaver and Homesite.
In a desparate attempt to save the html of the site from being totallly raped by people with no html experience using a piece of crap editor I wrote some special generator applications for the client that would allow standardized changes to pages and allow access to only what the client needed to be changed. I got no support from my boss (and in fact was scolded for spending time on it) and was never allowed to attend meetings with the client to plead my case.
Whats worse is that every time a client would open a frameset or certain other pages in FP it would break the page in some way that I still don't understand without actually altering the html. These documents would not even open in Homesite and would have to be cut and pasted to be fixed (by re saving and reposting).
The only browser they cared about was IE and yet I was required to make sure that the site complied with accessability guidlines as this was a city government web site.
At one point I found out that the look and feel designs that they were feeding me were copied verbatum from a city site in Canada. The site (escept for the front page which some guy from the water dept. kept dicking with) ended up looking exactly like this site. I kept wondering up till that point why all other designs were rejected. In additing they insisted against my protests on stealing a Java applet they found on the web somewhere that clearly stated the need for licensing (a cheesy text scrolling thing)
This company finally went under but not before I was let go because supposedly my work was not as ""comparable" to another developer they had just hired to do ASP work.
Never mind not a soul there understood a thing about html, javascript, java or any other web technology I was working with. One day my boss turns to the VB developer and asks "I can't remember which one is it that I don't like? Java or Javascript?" He didn't know what either one was.
It's been very hard to get back on my feet after this but I did learn a lot.