On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM, William Allen Simpson<[email protected]> wrote: > William Allen Simpson wrote: >> I run Firefox with JS off by default for all wikimedia sites, because of >> serious problems in the not so recent past! >> > s/recent/distant/ I'm sorry that you seem to have such bad experiences with JavaScript. Still, i don't think your comments are really valid in today's world. Take a look at 'web 2.0-style' applications, such as Gmail or Google Maps. Stuff like that would simply be impossible in a web browser without depending on proprietary technology such as Flash. Recent effort in all modern webbrowsers (including IE) has gone mostly into optimizing Javascript engines. Whether you like it or not, Javascript is here to stay.
Of course, this debate shouldn't really be about what people like or dislike in a certain programming language. It should be about what the best option is for Mediawiki template programming. A small script language serves that goal best, so that leaves us to Lua and Javascript. Lua is pretty cool too, but isn't as well known as Javascript, and as far as i know they are pretty similar in most aspects. -- Hay _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
