korimako

All these companies were built on an infrastructure which tax payer's money funded the development of before it promised to make a profit. More taxpayer money was put into the development of the internet than the Manhattan project. Private companies are reaping the benefit - in my opinion they owe it us to keep the system open, and API's are just a token gesture in that direction.

We are currently porting a large web app from Actionscript to Javascript. The only library that we found that met our needs was Google Closure. It caters for modules of compressed code to be downloaded as required, much like the runtime shared libraries in Actionscript. Given the quirks of Javascript implementation, I don't see how we could have written our web application in any other language and successfully managed the exceptions.