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Yahoo Javascript Libraries go OpenSource

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

NTEN

And if you want to get more deeply under the hood, both platforms require some understanding of the respective platforms (how plug-ins work in WP, how modules work in Drupal), and probably a bit of PHP, HTML, or AJAX to add bells and whistles to the theme. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. Charles Toepfer has posted a nice cross-browser library that implements this straightforward approach to xpath for the Mozilla browsers.

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