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JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Brendan, on his mozillazine blog talks about JavaScript 1, 2, and in between in light of DHTML and AJAX. In an informal blog entry he answers frequently asked questions such as fixing Unicode in regular expressions, multi-threading, weak numeric typing, and obfuscating code."

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  1. And why not? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 5, Insightful
    but this stinks of DRM type shit. somewhat like that amazon fiasco that prevents the same user from viewing all the pages of a book.

    Honestly. Why should you be able to? Amazon SELLS books. It's not an on-line library. That's not the service they are offering.

    --
    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  2. Re:Just what I wanted! by dwlovell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mostly agree, but we do need Javascript. If you look at the Strict XHTML spec, there is no target="" attribute allowed on anchor tags. So if you want to open a link in a new browser, the official way to do it requires client-script (something about targetting is a browser behavior not a document structure semantic, so it should be script, not html):

    <a href="http://www.slashdot.org" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;">Slashdot</a>

    So you can argue that XHTML blows, or that you shouldn't open links in a new window, but if you decide you want to be standards compliant, you are going to need some client script. This is not the only example.

    -David