James Clark's Random Thoughts

The following is adapted from the slides of a presentation I gave yesterday on how the Thai software industry can benefit from open source. ...

I was surprised to find that ES4 does not fold in E4X (although it reserves the syntax).  I had always viewed E4X as being one of the smoo...

ES4 takes a very interesting approach to typing.  They've added static typing but made it completely optional.   Variable declarations ...

The group working on the next version of ECMAScript (ES4) have released a language overview .  There's a lively discussion on the mai...

When I first started thinking about signing HTTP responses, I assumed that signing HTTP requests was a fairly similar problem and that a sin...