Browsers evolution timeline
A nice visual representation of the browser evolution in time. It is interesting to see the different evolution models taken by involved actors: for instance, some browsers like IE and Opera survived to-day by taking their own path, while others like Firefox and Safari evolved from previous work.
From TechPosters via Alessandro Baffa's blog
Nice Javascript Frameworks
I'm working quite a lot in Javascript lately, and I spent quite some time using the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). That is a nice piece of client-side software, and I think I'll publish a couple of tutorials sooner or later.
While playing around, I found out two really awesome frameworks built (by Eric Abouaf) on top of YUI:
- InputEx: a framework to build fields and forms programmatically
- WireIt: a Web wirable interfaces dataflow application, visual programming languages, graphical modeling, graph editors, etc. etc.
They look promising, and I think I'm going to spend some times on those... I'll let you know
The Failure of the GPL
Un interessante articolo di David Chisnall riguardo la GPL e il suo (in)successo nell'industria del software. Oltre che sfatare il falso mito di "Google paladino di Linux", l'articolo riporta questo interessante passaggio:
With web services and web applications becoming increasingly common, you don't even need to try very hard. You can incorporate as much GPL'd code as you want into your proprietary web app or service, and no one can get at the code because you never distribute the binary—you just let people use it.
Mi domando quale sia la posizione della FSF e dei "GPListi" al riguardo...
via InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172