> does anyone else feel dirty typing javascript into Director? :-)
Director gets scripted in Lingo and that's just the way it is - Javascript
stays on my web sites!
To be entirely honest I don't see the point in including Javascript as a
second scripting language for Director (or even adding a second language at
all). I know it's been put in to speed up development progress and the ease
of using an establish, widespread scripting language for projects without
learning a whole new language, but is Lingo really *that* hard to migrate to
from Javascript? What's easier to understand?
for (i = 1; i < 11; i++) {
...
}
or
repeat with i = 1 to 10
...
end repeat
The only real benefit I can see is for Flash ActionScripters coming over to
Director development and having a more-or-less identical scripting language
in both - it's all based on ECMAScript after all - but as I said is Lingo
really that difficult to pick up?
Besides, I would've thought that knowing more than one scripting/programming
language would be more attractive? Also I personally feel it's a little slap
in the face to those of us who've spent the time learning multiple languages
and building up a diverse set of skills.
Would be interesting to hear from some of the Macromedia bods that frequent
the list on their take and views on Javascript's inclusion.
Cheers,
Ross
(who should get some sleep instead of being a grumpy bugger today)
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