[Ldsoss] Bounties, BarCamps, etc.

[Jesse Stay]

Not for a bounty, but I've been wanting to develop an AJAX pedigree browser
for awhile now.  You can overcome most of the cross-browser compatibility
issues by using many of the AJAX libraries that are out there.  We use it
pretty consistently in our checkout process on backcountry.com, and while
testing is important, it hasn't been too big of an issue.  I've found most
of the issues Flex claims to solve can be solved with good javascript
libraries and experience in using them.

The other important thing, and this applies to even Flex, is that
establishing a set of browsers your code will work on no matter what helps
to set your limits on what you need to test on.  There comes a point where
older browsers just don't make sense to support any more.

Jesse

On 7/10/06, Dallan Quass <dallan at quass.org> wrote:
>
>  I've been burned too many times with javascript not working
> cross-browser.  Code that I develop that works fine under Firefox has bugs
> that are difficult to find (for me at least) under IE.  I recently had a
> situation where code that ran fine under IE6 just stopped working one day
> even though I had made no changes to my code.  I assume it was due to an
> automatic IE update.  To test my javascript code I have one machine running
> IE5.5, one running IE6.0, one running IE7beta, and I wish I still had a
> Mac machine to test on.  With Flex I get a stable VM that's on 95% of
> browsers where I don't have to worry about browser compatibility.  I agree
> an open platform would be better, but overall it seems like a reasonable
> trade-off.  Also, Flex apps can be made to look cooler due to the
> built-in graphics effects, like fade - and one of the things I'd like to do
> is create some online genealogy games someday.  I'd consider OpenLaszlo (
> www.openlaszlo.org) if enough people were interested.
>
> -dallan
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org [mailto:
> ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org] *On Behalf Of *Jesse Stay
> *Sent:* Monday, July 10, 2006 1:32 PM
> *To:* LDS Open Source Software
> *Subject:* Re: [Ldsoss] Bounties, BarCamps, etc.
>
> Does the pedigree manager have to be in Flex?  Why not AJAX out of
> curiosity?  AJAX is much more open IMO, and promotes others to learn how you
> wrote the code.
>
> Jesse
>
> On 7/10/06, Dallan Quass <dallan at quass.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm willing to do open-source programming and even sponsor open-source
> > programming for family history.  I'd like to get responses on what
> > people
> > think is the most effective way to get started.  Here are some ideas;
> > I'm
> > interested in feedback on these ideas and other ideas.
> >
> > (1) BarCamps.  I could attend and help sponsor the BarCampUtah that Phil
> > Burns is putting together if others interested in doing open-source
> > programming for family history are planning to attend.
> >
> > (2) Monthly meetings.  I could possibly organize a monthly meeting where
> > people could get together to coordinate work on open-source family
> > history
> > projects.  The meeting could either be in-person (Utah Valley, with
> > food),
> > or online (Skype/IRC).
> >
> > (3) Bounties.  A bounty is a small payment offered for someone to
> > develop a
> > particular feature on an open-source project.  I could offer bounties
> > for
> > example on a MediaWiki (Wikipedia) <flickr> tag handler that would
> > display
> > thumbnails of images from flickr on wiki pages, a MediaWiki <blog> tag
> > handler to display the posts from a blog (rss feed), or an online
> > (implemented in Macromedia Flex) pedigree manager.
> >
> > -dallan
> >
> >
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