Glow by the Beeb!
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Last couple of days I have been prodding around the Glow Javascript library from BBC. Very interesting and seems very similar to jQuery.
Has a similar syntax for example
1: glow.ready(function() {
2:
3: });
this is the first bit you put for all Glow scripts. In jQuery scripts you start them with
1: $(document).ready(function() {
2:
3: });
So very similar… What I have found with Glow it is more focused towards coding visual widgets as they call them on the Glow website. The widgets include, AutoSuggest, Carousel, Editor, Panel, Slider, Timetable and many more. They are also really easy to code, for example Carousel is the one I have been messing around with and with less than a 100 lines of Javascript had a pretty basic Carousel going.
Documentation seems to be good as well but there is a distinct lack of user submitted examples. Whereas with jQuery there’s loads!!!
I believe once Glow starts to get more widely used it is going to be very popular!
More posts will come regarding Glow in the near future…
I look at Mac’s all the time, and consider buying one. I mainly look at the laptops, specifically the Macbook Pro. Reason I look at the laptops and not the desktops, is because I feel a PC is always going to be better than a Mac Pro or iMac, all because if I feel like it I could upgrade a PC for a few hundred quid, reinstall it and it will be a lot better. With a Mac I wouldn’t be able to do this, well possibly with the Mac Pro. But the iMac this wouldn’t happen and I believe when paying £1.5k to £2k+ for a desktop this is stupid, a laptop is different.