Web Platform

This is brilliant news for the web development community, and I'm genuinely excited to log this here on what could be a helpful resource for all of us.

9 Oct 20122 min read

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This is great news to the community of web developers around the world and I am very much excited to share it here. Its about the launch of webplatform, a website that is dedicated for education of open web standards. This is a like a dream team of top developers from Google, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, HP, W3C, Nokia and Adobe together in one place. There are websites like StackOverflow, which I always use to ping in case of any doubts while developing a website and there are other forums which are popular too. Sometimes I hang around Mozilla's MDN & Microsoft's MSDN to check with browser specific problems and also try to gather the latest from there but this new platform sounds just the useful one to make things clearer for cross browser and cross platform support. Visually, this website looks great and the forum UI is simple. This makes it stand out from the usual wiki websites which look bleak and boring.

The website is in alpha mode, things are just not ready yet and you can see that when you browse around. The topics are limited to JS, HTML5 and CSS and we can expect more languages and frameworks to be added soon in the future. The above mentioned companies are listed as STEWARDS, so we can expect some solid moderation and support from them. First hand help from the respective developers in the forum will be handy and reduces the time to stroll around the net when trying to solve a bug or problem. I love to learn new things and this initiative looks just the platform to stick around.

The announcements by the respective companies are as follows. I got these links from Addy Osmani's Google+ profile, here is the link. You can also check his views about webplatform.org.

Cheers

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