fredag den 22. august 2008

Was JavaScript a mistake?



Vi mangler .Net til din browser. Kod din applikation i JS eller et andet scripting sprog og afvikl den i en 'Google Gear' box. Sidstnævnte i en generisk form skulle indbygges i din favorit browser.
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We need .Net for your browser. Make your code in JS or what ever scripting language you prefer. Run the code in your browser in a 'Google Gear' box and all is set. A generic version of GG built into your favorite browser.
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Standardizing on a single language puts too many eggs in the browser's basket.

By Neil McAllisterAugust 21, 2008

The more I hear about the ongoing efforts to revise the leading Web standards, the less convinced I am that we're approaching Web-based applications the right way.

The latest dust-up involves ECMAScript, the international standard that forms the basis of the JavaScript language. Last week, the committee in charge of the language voted to abandon the proposed ECMAScript 4 standard in favor of a much less ambitious revision, dubbed ECMAScript 3.1.

Had the work continued, it would have brought big changes. "Programming 'in the large' has been a problem with untyped languages like JavaScript," Adobe's Ed Rowe told me in an interview earlier this year. "That's why Adobe has been working with [ECMA] on ECMAScript 4 ... to introduce concepts that are compatible with building large-scale applications."

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