The race to cloud standards gets crowded
The rise of cloud computing has led to a strong push from IT leaders at many major companies to develop standards that such address issues as security and data portability in the cloud.
But the early push for standards is beginning to resemble a NASCAR race -- everyone is driving on the same track but sitting in different cars.
Multiple organizations are in pursuit of the same checkered flag: a set of standards that will facilitate the adoption of cloud computing technologies.
The latest organization to join the growing list of standards groups is the IBM-backed Cloud Standards Customer Council, which announced its steering committee last month. Read more...
Testing time for updated Javascript standard
A "minimal but needed update" to ECMAScript, also known as Javascript, has been ratified by standards chiefs who have promised greater consistency between browsers.
ECMA-262 edition 5.1 packs a number of "editorial corrections" and bug fixes that it promised will make ECMA-262 edition "easier" and allow for better interoperability among web applications. It updates edition 5, approved in December 2009 and ratified by the ISO, IEC and ECMA International.
To help further on the interoperability front, ECMA has promised it will also publish – for the first time – a standardized test suite so developers can see just how far implementations of ECMAscript adhere to the official standard. Read more...