Posted by hywel.jenkins on 11/05/71 11:39

Stan McCann wrote:
> Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in
> news:spfnu154l3vj60ilocq9mbatjenjmlqpc9@4ax.com:
>
> > How it does it is that it breaks the old HTML dependence on HTTP,
> > and a single "get page, submit page, get page, submit page"
>
> Sorry, that's the way the web was designed to work.

How does it feel to be stuck in the 80s?


>
> > sequence. Bits of JavaScript code and a component that can retrieve
>
> Which is a good enough reason not to use it. You run your programs on
> your computer; I will run my programs on my computer.

No one's running programs on your computer. Except you.


> And if I don't
> know you, or I've never seen any information about your program; I damn
> sure ain't going to run it on my computer.

No one's asking you to.


> Client side scripting is, and has always been a bad idea.

Why? Please explain without resorting to the usual misguided cliches.


> If it were
> more limited on what it could do on someone elses computer, ok, but I
> don't want my window resized, I don't want you to take away all the
> buttons on the window that I am familiar with and know how to use so
> that you can put some buttons in place that I don't know how to use.

I think you've missed the point. Entirely.


> Javascript is always off until I know what a page author wants to do
> with it (IF I bother to look or care).

You're the sort of person that hinders technological progress. Why
don't you just buy something made my Smith Corona and ditch your
computer.

--
Hywel

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