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DEVELOPING SOFTWARE IN JAVASCRIPT

I was reading Aza Raskin's blog, and noticed that he's working on a new plugin system for Firefox called JetPack.  It's like the regular plugin system (which is what's currently used to write addons for Firefox) but with a twist.

Instead of exposing the Firefox API where the plugin developer has to learn C/C++, the API is exposed in such a way that developers can write plugins using HTML, JavaScript and AJAX. 

Sound familiar? 

Palm have recently released their new smart phone, the Palm Pre.

One of the features of the Pre is its OS, WebOS where (you guessed it) developers write applications using HTML, JavaScript and AJAX.

With more and more developers writing applications for the web, it only seems smart to provide extensibility to your platform using technologies they already know.