True. But what jQuery did for DOM access in the name of uniformity, a new syntax could do for JavaScript in the name of scalability. JavaScript is littered with problems when you move up in application scale (global vars, missing block scope, semicolon leniency etc.) and a static language would be welcomed by many.
On Dec 14, 6:06 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, its HTML thats a bit disorganized. JavaScript is pretty universal > across all browsers. If you allow ditching truly ancient stuff (IE 5.5, > netscape 4), then its quite difficult to write javascript that works on one > browser and not on another (well, as long as you stay away from HTML > interaction, i.e. no DOM lookup / modification, no hooking into DOM-based > events, etc). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
