I recently announced the upcoming [release of Coherent 1.0](http://coherentjs.org/docs/release/coherent-10-release-candidate-1) and I’ve been very pleased by the positive reception the library has received.
Lots of folks have come out of the woodwork to either say they’ve been looking for something like this for ages. I guess there are more fans of the Apple development model than I thought. And obviously a lot of us build Web applications either for a living or in our spare time.
So imagine you’ve got this image of two cats complete with a nice drop shadow. One half of the image has a white background, while the other half has no background (indicated by the standard Photoshop checkerboard background pattern).
So let’s say you’re using SpiderMonkey (the JavaScript engine from Mozilla) to build a Web application server that naturally uses JavaScript as the server-side language. Naturally, you want to support XML, since you want to be taken seriously and of course, you don’t want to write your own XML parser, because libxml2 is really good. And because you want to be extra cool, you want your XML implementation to support DOM level 3 out of the box.
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We’re hiring in the Front End Engineering team over at the online Apple store. If you’re a kick ass CSS wrangler or JavaScript guru, we’d like to talk to you.
But if you want to work at Apple, your portfolio better friggin’ work in Safari.
Things have been very quiet here lately. I know I originally said I’d be posting frequently about this cool application I’ve been developing, but something else came up… we’ve decided to move to Seattle.
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