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I once believed that Javascript was a toy language that was not worth the time. And once upon a time that was true. But times have changed. Today, Javascript is a suprisingly useful language.

My area of expertise is telework, or remotely hosted applications. I've been writing PHP/SQL databases for years, and the end result always feels like a web page, not a program. In order to make an web based application "feel" like an application, Javascript is the thing.

Take, for instance, Game Lib, a javascript library for writing games. These games are far more "cross-platform" than anything else out there. Or Javascript Windows, which simulates multiple browser windows in a single web page - even allowing form submission with reloading the document. And how about that DHTML debugger written in Javascript ? You can't do those things in PHP.

I find that the Javascript/PHP/SQL can be used to create cross-platform, remotely hosted applications. And until we, as the development community, start taking advantage of Javascript, it will continue to be buggy in all the browsers. Once we make it a standard part of the process, then the web browsers will make more of an effort to support it.

I once believed that Javascript was a toy language that was not worth the time. And once upon a time that was true. But times have changed. Today, Javascript is a suprisingly useful language.

My area of expertise is telework, or remotely hosted applications. I've been writing PHP/SQL databases for years, and the end result always feels like a web page, not a program. In order to make an web based application "feel" like an application, Javascript is the thing.

Take, for instance, Game Lib, a javascript library for writing games. These games are far more "cross-platform" than anything else out there. Or Javascript Windows, which simulates multiple browser windows in a single web page - even allowing form submission with reloading the document. And how about that DHTML debugger written in Javascript ? You can't do those things in PHP.

I find that the Javascript/PHP/SQL can be used to create cross-platform, remotely hosted applications. And until we, as the development community, start taking advantage of Javascript, it will continue to be buggy in all the browsers. Once we make it a standard part of the process, then the web browsers will make more of an effort to support it.

Just curious if anyone else noticed you can get a "Right-click" menu window to pop-up when you are on the JavaScript enabled MouseGesture website. I really hate JavaScript sometimes.

I haven't heard anyone mention it, but the trojan.qHost "virus" (not a virus at all) is pretty nasty, and seems to be changing all the time. It only effects IE right now. It changed your DNS settings, and creates a hijacking "hosts" file so that all search engines (google, yahoo, hotbot, excite) end up at another webserver. It took me about a week to figure out what was going on, and from the look of things other people are stuck on it. It's being called a virus, but really it's hijack-ware. And once you've caught it, it's really hard to do a search to find out what's going on. There's a small discussion on GoogleGuys site (seems to be shrinking ?), and a trojan.qHost information/removal page at BiteSize.

It scared me silly last night when it happened to me. I'e been optimizing my site, and suddenly the google search page told me I had made 7 searches. Of course, I've been making hundreds, but....

This morning it is gone.

I had been having a problem with google being Down for days, until I figured out that I had been infected by a trojan, trojan.qHosts. So my google page had been different anyway.

-Chris
BiteSize Inc

It scared me silly last night when it happened to me. I'e been optimizing my site, and suddenly the google search page told me I had made 7 searches. Of course, I've been making hundreds, but....

This morning it is gone.

I had been having a problem with google being Down for days, until I figured out that I had been infected by a trojan, trojan.qHosts. So my google page had been different anyway.

-Chris
BiteSize Inc