http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html en-gb 30 Thu 24 Dec 2009 03:04:09 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=16#comment5 The Glow library is brilliant and just what I've been looking for however the documentation, though good, does leave a little lacking. There are some excellent basic examples and code, and some interesting advanced demos. But nothing, no transition in between. I got pretty much up to speed with the basics in a few hours and now I want to move no but there is nothing. If you look at the (excellent) bbc.co.uk site you can see the potential of Glow, but when you look and the Glow docs there is most definately nothing that links the two in terms of advanced information. What I think is really needed is an intermediate or (detailed) advanced guide to accompany the documentation. Great job bbc, but you need to go that little bit further. Sun 25 Oct 2009 09:26:30 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=13#comment4 This post has been Removed Sun 19 Jul 2009 20:34:43 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=10#comment3 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 GlowBrowser 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. Fri 10 Jul 2009 09:18:18 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=6#comment2 Great API with a fantastic reference website; one of the best I have seen (puts MSDN to shame for clarity!). Well done to all involved in the development, and congratulations for making it open source. It will be interesting to see how many BBC-esque commerical sites suddenly appear in the next few months!Only minor issue with the reference site seems to be that the AutoSuggest examples in the user guide don't seem to work for me. Thu 09 Jul 2009 07:35:42 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=3#comment1 It would be nice, given that in the linked article it states JQuery (et al.) was deficient if a direct comparison could be made showing glow implementing something that jquery fails at.Despite the claims in http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/docs/articles/what_is_glow.shtml I can't really imagine the JQuery team not wanting the BBC on the team adding extra browser support, tying up namespace issues (between different jquery versions, strange that such would be needed) and avoiding "CSS clashes" (not sure what's meant precisely there).Were they approached? Thu 09 Jul 2009 01:31:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/07/glow_javascript_library_open_s.html?page=0#comment0 This is really great! Thanks very much for releasing Glow as opensource. Quite surprised that no one has commented yet, but I can see that a lot of people have started to take notice already.Such a strange coincidence, I was searching around on BCC blogs and labs sites just last night looking for something like this!My first thing to do with Glow will be to try and replicate the excellent photo galleries that are on the BBC news site.Thanks again :-) Wed 08 Jul 2009 20:50:10 GMT+1