On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Tim wrote: > Actually, no, JavaScript has been predominantly a client-side language > since it's inception. It was Netscape who invented it, afterall, and it's > purpose has been to make web pages dynamic.
Tim, You're right: I should have recognized it's origins on the client since I knew it was invented at Netscape. > Use of JavaScript on the server has never been hugely popular, though it > has always been there, waxing and waning depending on what frameworks > support it. Lately it has been waxing. So, it's likely that the server (particularly facebook's) wants capabilities in js not found in the version installed with Slackware-14.0 or just does not work with the installed firefox version (which has been upgraded a couple of times). Turns out the problem(s) go away with chrome so she's happy. Ergo, so am I. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
