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Re: Yahoo talk about the software revolution that is JavaScript said by Dersgniw:I used to have that problem with Yahoo mail, but lately I've kept my browser open for days with Yahoo mail and have had no problems. JS is great at doing much more than validating fields now. Webapps are definitely becoming big and javascript can do pretty much anything that Flash or Silverlight can do. But WHY???
js isn't even a strongly typed language... which makes it subject to oddities... besides the fact that it is much much slower as it is a scripting language.
I wrote fairly complex stuff with js, to be honest now I wish I did it in Silverlight instead.
And I'm going to disagree with one more thing:
JS is great at doing much more than validating fields now No. All those "great" things it is doing aren't "new" things, they are just complex functions using the same language - they don't do the same things faster or newer things with comparable speed - they do new things but slower... and slower... |
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kudos:4 | said by cowboyro:But WHY??? js isn't even a strongly typed language... which makes it subject to oddities... besides the fact that it is much much slower as it is a scripting language. I wrote fairly complex stuff with js, to be honest now I wish I did it in Silverlight instead. Because it works for most needs and it's easy to use.
I agree it's not the fastest language, but for most lightweight client side stuff, you don't need the fastest language. You write some nice client side code that interacts with the business logic on the server. You don't really need speed or a strongly typed language.
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| said by Dersgniw: but for most lightweight client side stuff, you don't need the fastest language. My point exactly. It's decent at lightweight stuff. NOT at making the whole UI in js. Leave the heavier stuff for specialized languages, don't try to make an entire framework with it. It just doesn't have the speed to do it... |
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kudos:4 | We have a fairly large Windows application at work. The big wigs wanted us to convert this application into a web app. The Windows app is highly specialized. Every component can be customized and users build their own forms that do just about anything. So, we're using extJS and pass metadata to the browser that is used to build each form on the fly. The forms are kept in multiple tabs. Forms will contain a couple hundred records with grids and custom components all handling different events. Each record can have subrecords with subgrids. Pretty fat for a client. It's all done with javascript. I have to say I'm amazed that it's not dirt slow, and it's actually surprisingly fast. Tons of javascript code and a lot data being sent back and forth. But, javascript is handling it pretty well.
It seems if you do it right, it can be done. That's just my own observation.
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