Re: Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962!

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:47:16AM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote:
> > This is Bad.  This discourages modular programming.  This leaves everyone
> > to reimplement basic functionality over and over again.  That's the hate
> > I'm talking about.  Anything that involves putting the include functionality
> > into the web page, be it <script> or SSI or whatever, has that hate.
> 
> I was actually suggesting putting the SSI in the JavaScript source
> files.  Then it would be just like having a real JS 'include' directive,
> except with a rather odd syntax.  

Clever.  I might make use of that for myself, thanks.

But still non-standard and thus unshippable. :(


> The only problem I can see is you'd
> have to update the modification time on the 'main' JS file whenver one
> of the included ones was modified, to get cached versions updated.

Shouldn't SSI trigger a cache flush based on the mod time of the files being 
included rather than just the file doing the including?

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  • Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962! Michael G Schwern 23:15 on 08 Apr 2005
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