MIH SWAT

Douglas Crockford wrote in a 2001 article that javascript was the world’s most misunderstood programming language. In another article, from 2008, he explains why: “Its obvious defects, its unfashionable programming model, intentional mispositioning at its introduction, and its ridiculous name caused it to be rejected as unworthy by most knowledgeable programmers”. And then, he recognizes: there was AJAX. And AJAX gave javascript a second chance. (more…)

HTML 5 is the next major revision of the core markup language of the World Wide web, HTML, and will replace both HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 (after W3C announced it will discontinue further development of XHTML 2). (more…)

Answer me quick: “What is the language of the web?”

Ok, how many of you answered with the name of a programming language? How many shouted out PHP, Ruby, Python or something similar? This is not that kind of post – I am not trying to start a religious war amongst the supporters of our beloved languages (not in this post at least…) (more…)

There is much talk about the coming of the Web to Africa. Much of it completely misdirected, in my opinion. The web has already arrived in Africa – there was simply very little uptake. (more…)