Sophistication in Web Applications?

whit537 asks: "Anyone who uses Gmail for 5 minutes can see that it's a pretty dern sophisticated web application. But just how sophisticated? Well, first of all, the UI is composed of no less than nine iframes (try turning off the page styles in Firefox with View > Page Style). But then consider that these iframes are generated and controlled by a 1149 line javascript. This script includes no less than 1001 functions, and 998 of these functions have one- or two-letter names! They're obviously not maintaining this script by hand in that form. So do they write human-readable javascripts and then run them all together, or have they developed some sort of web app UI toolkit in Python? Does Gmail need to be this complex or is the obfuscation a deliberate attempt to prevent reverse-engineering? And are there any other web apps that are this sophisticated?"

Comments

Re:Just quick and easy

[Karora]

For the number of times "ii" occurs in english you could save yourself a character, right there.

Now, I'm off for a bit of skiing...

Re:Just quick and easy

[Pig Hogger]

For the number of times "ii" occurs in english you could save yourself a character, right there.
Now, I'm off for a bit of skiing...

He was working for a ski resort, you insensitive clod!!!

Python Programmers

[bill_mcgonigle]

When you sign up to be a Python Programmer you have to promise to evangelize rabidly. At least that's been my experience. Evangelism must include suggesting that python is the best language for every job, trashing every other scripting language, and suggesting that Python is what makes the Holy Grail work. ...and to mod-down any Slashdot post that doesn't beatify Python, I'm sure. There goes some karma...

Re:Just quick and easy

[fiftyfly]

*correction - a water skiing resort... in hawaii... working on an ascii front end for a diiodide metering device... Just a though: /usr/share/dict $ grep -ic ii words 419