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- dionalmaer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would love this to happen. The big question is whether the IE team wants to go in this direction ;)
- linuxlizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> why make it like python? if i wanted python, i'd use python... yuck.
They're just leveraging a cool feature, not making JS like python. Iterators and generators also exist in the C++ STL and are probably a common OOP thingy. (For a full definition of "thingy", see any Booch book I suppose.) - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Speaking of JS, does anyone have a good online reference comparable to what's available for php with php.net? I've got a great book, but never found a single comprehensive reference.
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0trejkaz: you can already write the scripting and the webapp in the same language, javascript, if that is your desire.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the IE team will want to. MS managment won't
i mean whats in it for them to be compatable with everyone else? it only weakens their market share. ( thats thier thinking not mine )
with js/xml based compitors to office around the corner you watch them sabotage this one as well - Arevos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"and without Pythons silly significant whitespace!"
Although this is a little off-topic, I've never understood this attitude. If you indent your code, then what's the problem? If you don't indent your code, why don't you? - Toiling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree. IE should go this direction.
- Junx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If total DOM control wasn't enough...
I hope this means *someone* will update the ***** js.vim syntax files so that they don't suck. They're forgetting about all that fun JavaScript and ECMAScript that was invented sometime in the past 10 years... - rsanheim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Brendan on the future of js: "My gut says that we will successfully evolve JS into a much stronger language, with a better and more standard library ecosystem, for the next ten years of its life. I will wager that other browsers will follow the ES4 standard, possibly even in 2007."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember studying Perl a long time ago, the book basically said to do as much data handling as you can in the browser with JavaScript, so there would be less load on the server and bandwidth. Does this practice still apply? It seems bandwidth is huge now, servers are beefed up, and people turning off JavaScript is more and more popular. Forms still need to work! So would it be good practice to do everything in the back end for something like a form? Like checking the format of emails and and if a form was left blank, etc. Unless the stuff is purposely AJAXy, it needs to work everywhere.
- isalpha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is good stuff. It means we get the nice Python techniques in a nice C-style language and without Pythons silly significant whitespace!
- skytomorrownow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why make it like python? if i wanted python, i'd use python... yuck.
- jesusphreak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, automagically, always in the back end. Use JS sparingly, and really only for visual effects, imo.
- aThing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yay! Even more of a need for NoScript!
() - cbmeeks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hell, I wished all the browsers on all the platforms would get their ***** together. I mean, if you design for the most minimalistic JS there is (along with CSS, etc) you can have a nice cross-platform site.
But sometimes it's a bitch making sure your code works on everything...then, IE upgrades and breaks your code...lol
Programming, chatting, etc....another blog: yawn
http://cbmeeks.blogspot.com/
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