Public unveiling of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ glow
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| 14:41 UK time, Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Its been on the tip of Javascript developers tongues for a while now, no not the all dominating J-Query. Instead this thing called Glow. So now the JavaScript library Glow is available to the world under a Apache 2.0 Licence.
But the question everyone wants to know is why would the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ create there own Javascript Library when there are so many out there and some very dominate players. Well Stephen Elson, Lead Product Manager of Glow explains in this blog post....
Of course, there are many excellent JavaScript libraries available already, many of which are open source themselves, so you may ask why we chose not to adopt one of these? The simple answer can be found in our Browser Support Standards. These standards define the levels of support for the various browsers and devices used to access bbc.co.uk: some JavaScript libraries may conform to these standards, but many do not, and those that do may change their policies in the future. Given this fact, we decided that the only way to ensure a consistent experience for our audiences was to develop a library specifically designed to meet these standards. A more in depth look at this question is available on the Glow website.
If you want to find out more, we recommend you have a look at the Glow website, and if you are of a technical persuasion perhaps even download the library it and have a play. Whatever you think, we welcome your feedback.
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