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Posted by Andrew Poelstra on 12/17/98 11:56
"Alvaro G. Vicario" <webmaster@NOSPAMdemogracia.com> writes:
> *** Andrew Poelstra escribió/wrote (Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:25:01 GMT):
>> Many people disable Javascript in their browsers
>
> Many developers love to think that users do so, but they don't :)
>
Okay, I'll bite. I'm a user and I use lynx. I also disable Javascript in
all my GUI-browsers so that I don't have to see popups and other crap.
Of course, you may argue that as a developer I don't count as a "user".
:-)
> But of course JavaScript is the worst tool for critical tasks. Among many
> other reasons, because developers who abuse JavaScript tend to be terrible
> coders and their scripts fail in browsers that are not Internet Explorer
> (and pretty often in IE itself). Good JavaScript coders just leave
> scripting for auxiliary tasks.
>
That's definitely true; I have a grammar checker written in Javascript
(no, it doesn't work well enough for me to link to it here), and it takes
several seconds to parse only a few kilobytes of text. I have no idea what
it'd do if transferred to IE (there's virtually no IO, so I'd assume that
it would be fine).
Whereas the logic, if transferred to C, would run through thousands of
times that much text in as little time. On a processor only 10% as
powerful.
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Andrew Poelstra <http://www.wpsoftware.net/projects>
To reach me by email, use `apoelstra' at the above domain.
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