Firefox is a relatively new Web browser and currently the most popular browser built on the Mozilla platform. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5 (currently in beta), comes with many features for XML developers.
Just reading all of the acronyms in that article gives me a headhace. I feel sorry for the poor souls that actully have to learn all the crap
Anytime you see an article that says for developers remember that’s the sort of thing they have to put with all the time. Without developers imagine where computing would be today?
“Anytime you see an article that says for developers remember that’s the sort of thing they have to put with all the time. Without developers imagine where computing would be today?”
You’re a funny guy. I would rehearse the analogies to other industries/arts/sciences to make you look silly, but I realize you’re just trying to give credit where credit’s due.
You’re my new model for “guy who really cares about software but has no more than a superficial understanding of how it gets from someone’s mind to his PC.”
Although you don’t contribute anything (besides revenue, possibly) to software or computing, you do bridge the gap between developers and users who, not only have no clue, but also don’t care.
Please go and spread the word to your family, friends, and colleagues: there are all these “developers” out there who do fascinating things with their minds, who magically turn caffiene and pizza into neat software packages. Maybe you can get them reading OSNews?
Seriously, though, the distinction between developer and user in OSS isn’t a big deal. There are a number of projects that require a great deal of experience and skill to contribute to, but most projects merely need people to write documentation, test development releases, or squash some minor bugs. Today you might think you have nothing useful to contribute, but tomorrow you might realize you don’t need a degree in computer science to help out.
Just more reasons to stick with Firefox.
Awesome.
In the “related articles” section, the 5th article from the top contains the same link to that IBM article.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-ffox15.html?ca=…
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/x-ffox15.html?ca=…
On a side note, I have yet to see an E4X example for Firefox that does useful things like selecting nodes, iterating though each node/attribute and displaying values, adding nodes/attributes, editing nodes/attributes, removing nodes/attributes.
I guess I will need to keep an eye on:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Main_Page
I hope MSIE 7 will support E4X – it will make my life easier in a few years.
– Mike –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4X
the link also goes to the “Oh man…” guy for educational reasons
IBM developerworks is one of the best things to happen to the open source community. I think it’s right up there with the likes of Mozilla and the big DEs. MS and Apple have their own centralized developer resources, but the open source community has always relied on spreading the word through newsgroups, blogs, and other aggregators like OSNews.
The FOSS development community should embrace developerworks and post their tutorials, howtos, and other resources there. If for no other reason than a good posting on developerworks is guaranteed to get links from OSNews and similar sites.
It would be fair to say that IBM’s open source / Linux contribution has been more bark than bite, but developerworks is all bite.