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You're right about the event being part of the DOM. If that is a concern, you can define your own view handlers that unpack the DOM event and forward the data to the controller han…

SetView.js contains a class called "maria.SetView". borrow.js does not contain a class but a function called "maria.borrow". Regardless these files all are concatenated to become a…

A controller and the strategy pattern allow a view to behave differently by plugging in a different controller into the view. This interchangeability of behavior is not something I…

Which differences? You can use any file system hierarchy you like with Maria.

fzzzy, Thanks for taking a look at Maria. You definitely got the gist of how things work with Maria but there are a few subtleties that might change your perspective on the relatio…

They didn't say "The King Henry VIII is dead. Long live the King Edward VI". In the JavaScript article, The "OLD king" is "JavaScript the source language". The "NEW king" is "JavaS…

You know how on January 10th, 2011 you were still writing 2010 by accident? I was off by a decade. Corrected.

If you like minimalistic languages, have you checked out Scheme? Because of its macros, the core language can stay small and the users can expand its syntax.

There was an ES4-to-ES3 compiler. The Traceur compiler takes many of the Harmony ideas and compiles to ES3.

Yes but many of the ideas in CoffeeScript were likely slated for ES.next before CoffeeScript. So it has been working in both directions.

Features that can be added through libraries should be added that way. You cannot add new syntax which involves scoping of variables through libraries. How would you do destructuri…

http://github.com/jrockway/lisp Please let us know when it is ready ;-)

Please write about how you do this and how you interact with the files (loading and serializing). I'm looking at alternatives to using relational databases and information about ho…