OT: Flash and Javascript (Was: Taunting)

[Ary Borenszweig]

grauzone escribió:
>> browsers. What's the big deal everyone have with Javascript?
> 
> It's unnecessary, annoying, slower, and adds security holes.

Anything which connects to the internet poses a security hole, like your 
web browser. So that's not a reason.

Also, Javascript makes some stuff faster because you don't have to 
reload the whole page again.

> About AJAX, you know it breaks the back button and all other sorts of 
> practical things you are used from normal web browsing.

Not if implemented correctly. See Gmail, for example. It uses AJAX all 
the time, and back and forward buttons work as expected. I think 
Facebook does this too.

And
> occasionally, they use it for animations. Animations what for?

To show the user what just happened. If you just make some content 
appear from nowhere, the user will not know what happened. If you make 
it appear sliding from a particular point, then you are telling the user 
that something is being created, and the trigger is that point.