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Listed below are comments made by stephenelson between Saturday, 14th March 2009 and Friday, 10th July 2009.

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Glow JavaScript library open source release 10:18am on 10 Jul 2009 paulbhj - jQuery is a fantastic library, and it's well deserving of it's popularity, we merely felt it wasn't for us. In fact we looked a wide range of extremely high quality libraries before beginning development of Glow

Browser support has been picked up as a consideration (jQuery does not support Safari 2 at the moment, wheras we have to, for example), however this was not the only factor. Also important is the fact that we need to ensure critical bug fixes, new features etc are released on a schedule we can control. Developing and managing our own library was a means of ensuring this level of control.

However, we are completely open to working with other open source projects. In fact, we are considering using the Sizzle CSS selector engine in version 2 of Glow, and would certainly contribute any changes we made back to them.
Interesting stuff: 'An Open BBC?' Event 10:52am on 14 Mar 2009 Dave, thanks for posting the details of Steve's talk, however as the Product Owner for Glow I just want to make a quick correction regarding its licensing status.

Steve lists Glow as being available under an open source licence, but he is a little premature in that statement. We are working towards releasing the library at the moment, and hopefully there will be more news in the next few months.

Thanks again for writing this up.

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