marijnnn 0 Report post Posted October 31, 2004 sure, i knew all that. but why make another language. javascript itself is pretty good. it's the browsers and the users that make it sucky.you could compare it to dynamite, which was invented to do good, and does the job very well, but people use it for the wrong purposes.most incompatibilities are because of the dom structure anyway, not because of javascript Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted October 31, 2004 Well, there should be a standardised language designed and documented in such a way that it can almost not be extended further, that it provides in all basic needs, so that it needn't be extended further. The DOM structure should be rebuilt as well, true, learning from the mistakes that were revealed with this. But most importantly, two major things :Faulty webpages shouldn't render. At all.Browsers should stick to the standards.If you create a language that provides in most basic DOM access needs, and all browsers use those standards, (even should they extend it further), then users using those standards alone will have webpages that Work. Nowadays, things aren't as easy as that.And those two statements I stated, are universal. Not just concearning clientside scripting, but also concearning CSS, HTML, SGML, etc.. If only W3C had the authority to penalise all browsers that didn't support the standards correctly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r3d1405241470 0 Report post Posted October 31, 2004 you've forgot to mention about ECMAScript :)it is the standard javascript version Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
avalon1405241471 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 Plain HTML result is general no problem to most users but a little Javascript to add info like guide on a topic (click and expand will explaination, click again to hide it) will help to help users with slow connections (no need to reload the whole page again).Like all other programs, if it is use wisely, it will be handy.Please bear in mind to use only small and basic/simple method scripts.Don't use more than 2 or 3 types of Javascript function in one page.Please comment, thanks people! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhunath 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2004 That's where things go wrong, avalon, because alot of those kinds of scripts work in IE, for example, but fail in Opera or Mozilla / Firefox / ... This is where you should be using CSS rather than JavaScript anyway. CSS alows for far more dynamic adjustments. Keeps things clean & easy & simple, whereas, if you look a JavaScript code..... it's all but clean, easy or simple. Not compared to CSS anyway. IE does have alot of difficulities with CSS, but I'd rather use a http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/intro/'>compliancy patch for IE (IE7) to fix IE, rather than JavaScript scripts to do that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
