JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out

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."

Comments

Re:And why not?

[KillShill]

the point is, they were using some obfuscation in addition to or in conjunction with javascript. it was defeated but they vowed to start an arms race... here's a clue.. if you don't want people to view all the pages of your book, why put them all there in the first place? why not a small sampling that tries to please everyone. the point is.. they are the problem i was speaking of in my original comment. trying to hide the way the code works to prevent something which is mostly harmless. do you think people prefer viewing pages on screen , trying to decipher the method of pseudo-DRM used and saving those low res pages to their drives in order to read a book OR buy a physical copy? in any case, i've made my point.