OT: Flash and Javascript (Was: Taunting)

[grauzone]

> browsers. What's the big deal everyone have with Javascript?

It's unnecessary, annoying, slower, and adds security holes.

When using Firefox, I usually use NoScript to block all scripts by 
default. Sometimes, some minor things don't work, and I have to enable 
JS. Now it's really rare to see functionality that couldn't be provided 
without JS. Rather, web designers seem to be really dumb and do stuff 
like replacing real links by script functions. As a prime example take 
YouTube. It's like YouTube doesn't believe in a life without AJAX! The 
simplest things don't work anymore. What for?

About AJAX, you know it breaks the back button and all other sorts of 
practical things you are used from normal web browsing. And 
occasionally, they use it for animations. Animations what for? They only 
introduce artificial GUI latency. (You know, Win 3.11 feels faster.) A 
related example for annoying AJAX things are those "applet" like boxes, 
that contain a "loading" gif, and apparently loads a HTML subtree using 
AJAX.

For completely over-engineered AJAX waste look at the Tango docs on 
dsource. I mean, it emulates frames, and the end result is worse than 
with good old frames! Ah yes, we all know frames are "outdated", but 
AJAX is hip and new! Let's emulate frames, because we feel it's too slow 
to reload the whole page again! (Now now, I wonder if the Tango docs 
even require a webserver. Maybe that's the reason why there's no 
downloadable documentation? But maybe I'm blaming the wrong thing here.)

They told use not to use <blink> or <marquee>? OK, we'll just use JS!

Among the best uses of JS I've seen are snow flakes moved by a script.

/rant (I feel better now.)