OT: Flash and Javascript (Was: Taunting)

[grauzone]

Alexander Pánek wrote:
> 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 Ah yes, we all know frames are "outdated", but 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

Oh god... why...