OT: Flash and Javascript (Was: Taunting)

Alexander Pánek alexander.panek at brainsware.org
Thu May 28 04:18:34 PDT 2009


grauzone wrote:
>> 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 Ah yes, we all know frames are "outdated", but 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.)

Look mah, JS and Flash combined in shiny modal windows:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/27/modal-windows-in-modern-web-design/

No, I really don’t want to torture you. Well, maybe a little. :P


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