Sam Heywood wrote:
>If it were invented by Netscape, then Bill Gates should have taken the same
>consideration he does with anything else invented by Netscape. He should
>have designed his operating system and browser to be incompatible with Java
>Script.
And he did! IE has "Internet Explorer Script" not JS (but they claim to
have JS everywhere)
>If Bill would have been smart enough to do that, then Java Script
>would have never have taken off the ground.
This is NOT true, it did take off and the reason was that Netscape was by
far the biggest browser developer out there. (And you can do some quite
nice looking effects with JS).
>I realize that there are technical differences between Java Script and Java,
>but because of my well-founded prejudices in this regard, I will stereotype
>all of the above as bad. When you hold a prejudice against an entire
>category, you aren't interested in making distinctions among sub-categories.
With your conclusion put in another sense: "Windows NT sucks so therefor
all OS suck!"
(Or why not: "Macs sucks so all computers suck!")
>As far as
>I'm concerned, Java and all of its kindred will become a good thing only
>when they are all dead.
I agree on Java.
>If Bill Gates should train Window$ to ignore JS, then most web-site
>developers would stop using it.
But how could they possible make a change in the OS/GUI so that
applications can be stopped in that way? If he could don't you think he
would have stopped Netscape (or any other competitor) this way earlier?
(Ok, DR-DOS 6.x couldn't install some versions of Windows 3.x but that's
diffrent).
>Why are they happy with it? What kind of essential browsing functions can
>you accomplish with JS that you can't do with straight-up HTML?
Nothing essential but you can add for instance changeable images (when the
mouse is over them) - this is very nice for menus. Or why not images that
zoom in/out (IIRC this can be done). In general you put more of the logic
out on the users computer than on the server (you can use JS for many
things that CGI are used for).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
