Point. But I find profiling and debugging far easier/faster on.NET, mono and Java than using JavaScript in any browser. And if there is an easy-to-debug browser; after debugging an application in it, I still have to make sure everything runs in the not-so-easy-to-debug browsers.
"Full vendor support", yeah right. Because JavaScript & DOM works exactly the same in all browsers.. No wait, they even have different names for it.
People clearly have different taste in programming language. Different languages also fit better for different purposes. So why the heck are we limited to JavaScript?
I heard talk about Mozilla embedding IronPython as well, however this doesn't solve many problems, as IronPython too is just a dynamically typed language.
What the web needs is something like the.NET runtime; the ability to compile a whole bunch of languages into a common bytecode format. What the computing world needs is not a new such bytecode format with a bunch of new languages. So my proposal is that WebKit and Mozilla adopt Mono.
That said; HTML is clearly designed for documents, not for applications. Many web developers are putting a lot of energy into making it a GUI markup language instead.. but what is needed is a change in the language. If that is how the language is being used, then it should adopt new features to accommodate these developers.
I'm currently working on quite a large Flex (ActionScript 3) project, and I can agree that the language is far better than the JavaScript junk that is in most browsers.
However, I would love it if Adobe embedded Mono as the runtime in Flash Player instead. It would definitly make development and debugging of larger projects a whole lot easier and it would probably make apps faster too. I guess we'll never know.
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Point. But I find profiling and debugging far easier/faster on .NET, mono and Java than using JavaScript in any browser. And if there is an easy-to-debug browser; after debugging an application in it, I still have to make sure everything runs in the not-so-easy-to-debug browsers.
"Full vendor support", yeah right. Because JavaScript & DOM works exactly the same in all browsers.. No wait, they even have different names for it.
People clearly have different taste in programming language. Different languages also fit better for different purposes. So why the heck are we limited to JavaScript?
I heard talk about Mozilla embedding IronPython as well, however this doesn't solve many problems, as IronPython too is just a dynamically typed language.
What the web needs is something like the .NET runtime; the ability to compile a whole bunch of languages into a common bytecode format. What the computing world needs is not a new such bytecode format with a bunch of new languages. So my proposal is that WebKit and Mozilla adopt Mono.
That said; HTML is clearly designed for documents, not for applications. Many web developers are putting a lot of energy into making it a GUI markup language instead.. but what is needed is a change in the language. If that is how the language is being used, then it should adopt new features to accommodate these developers.
I'm currently working on quite a large Flex (ActionScript 3) project, and I can agree that the language is far better than the JavaScript junk that is in most browsers.
However, I would love it if Adobe embedded Mono as the runtime in Flash Player instead. It would definitly make development and debugging of larger projects a whole lot easier and it would probably make apps faster too. I guess we'll never know.