][ stefano maffulli

During the past weeks in the mobile world at Funambol I’ve started deepening my thoughts about how computers are still inefficient and largely too hard to use. One thing that I hate is how the whole online things are separated from the file system.  I keep my hard disks organized in folders separating my work [...]

Tags: email, gui, messaging, mozilla, non-profit, thunderbird

Microsoft and Mozilla have engaged a fight over the future of  JavaScript (better called ECMAScript): Microsoft prefers to abandon it and start anew with another language based on its .NET script, while Mozilla prefers to evolve JS to a new version, ECMAScript4.
Leaving the technical details aside, I think once again that Microsoft needs to develop [...]

Tags: community, culture, ecmascript, javascript, microsoft, mozilla, open standards, organization, standards