This posting will be about the different styles of creating “components” or “objects” in Javascript, and which styles Fluid is planning to recommend and in what contexts.
Javascript has inherited an “infusion” of “object-oriented” features grafted at the last moment on its fairly minimal and clear (LISP-inspired) baseline. The resulting language simply has too many ways [...]

Last week, Fluid Project board member Jens Haeusser, from the University of British Columbia, came to Toronto to meet with the ATRC team. Prior to his current position as Director of Strategy in the Information Technology department at UBC, Jens was UBC’s Information Security Officer.
Jens provided us with an update on UBC’s plans for the [...]