[Web-SIG] JavaScript libraries

[Todd Grimason]

* Steve Holden [2005-05-06 07:08]:

> Except that it didn't, of course. My own belief is that Javascript, like 
> Perl, has suffered from the web-s 1990's "programming with a trowel" 
> metaphor, because a bunch of clueless dweebs dsicovered they could often 
> get 85% of a web job done by lifting chunks of code from the Internet 
> and dropping them into web pages.
> 
> The fact that they then often had no clue how to provide the other 15% 
> of the required fuctionality led to many oddities and much 
> "trial-and-error" programming that was inevitably a nightmare to maintain.
> 

Well yeah, but most people didn't want to hire a developer for $95K to
write their javascript rollovers. Though I'm sure many did. And so much
javascript at the time was endless if/else statements handling the
horrid mess that was[is] browser support and bugs. It's improved, or at
least to the extent that many people get to ignore older, buggier
browsers.

I don't think most 'real' developers were overly eager to spend all
their time writing javascript at the time either... and we could also
touch on all the horrific interfaces and design by developers who are
clueless dweebs when it comes to that ;-)


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