Javascript maturing, News Alloy and TinyMCE
Wednesday, February 15, 2006Wow, Yahoo! are really going for it with the release of their javascript user interface framework. It would seem DHTML is finally growing up and getting backing from some big companies and not just enthusiast hackers.
Won't be long before hard core javascript interfaces are accepted within the company Intranet. Which is often a conservative and closed environment. It'll be a good thing to; I'm sick of hearing the 'IE is our company standard so we only have to support IE' argument. Perhaps then makers of Enterprise software will stop with all the IE only web apps with their custom written crappy interfaces. Maybe there will start to be some standardisation towards popular javascript libraries across many products.
It'll become important for internal intranet teams to standardise on one interface framework and I bet companies will favour frameworks backed by big companies with a lot of support available; frameworks not likely to be abandoned before version 1.0 comes out.
I'd is even conceivable that in the future just listing 'Javascript' on your resume will not be enough. You may even have to list the frameworks you've worked with. Javascript professionals will be needed, not merely javascript spellers.
On the News Alloy front, I love it! Very happy. New features keep appearing and the developer is very responsive to bug reports. Performance and outages seem to be a slight problem but not enough to send me away. They are obviously having growing pains; a indication of their success.
A new version of TinyMCE, 2.0.3, has been released along with developer tools. Some major architecture changes means that a lot of third party plugins and themes will have to be written. Expect a new version of my ' Simple Browser' plugin to be released soon. TinyMCE is turning out to be a solid, high quality javascript rich text editor. I'm game enough to say probably the best one too.
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