Some JavaScript stuff
Noticed this on Scott Isaacs’ blog (bolding signifies the area that I found the most interesting):
Having a strong framework for building and integrating rich, highly interactive components enables MSN to deliver much better (and consistent) user experiences. The Framework provides us with a client-side component model, network stacks, firefox compatibility, and OO language enhancements that allows us to “engineer” rather than ad-hoc script the client.
Many of our goals and work is going to be captured in the Microsoft Atlas effort. Microsoft Atlas, from the ASP.net team, is an upcoming toolset to quickly enable any web-developer to create and build highly-interactive web-sites.
Interesting, it’s probably quite easy to draw many conclusions from that quote, so I won’t. I was actually thinking the other day when browsing the start.com pages whether or not they were using a “version” of the Atlas framework, or if Atlas would build upon previous JavaScript frameworks that I’m sure do exist internally at Microsoft (just an assumption that I made that they would have one already.).
I also noticed via the Ajaxian blog a link to an article on the IBM website entitled “Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla“, an interesting article that goes through the various differences between the browsers and how to accomodate for both in your apps. Basically, an article about developing for cross browser compatibility.