Re: Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962!

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: Javascript: Time Traveller From the Year 1962!
Date: 23:02 on 10 Apr 2005
* On 2005.04.10, in <20050410085016.GC4918@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Michael G Schwern" <schwern@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Last word on all this Javascript crap.
> 
> Sean Burke came up with something interesting, the upshot being that
> you write this in your HTML...
> 
>      <script type="text/javascript" src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>
>      <script type="text/javascript" src="js/hello.js"></script>
> 
> And then you can use bootstrap() inside your code.
> ...
> Final hate:  JavaScript's been around for TEN YEARS and nobody's figured
> this out yet??

Sure they have. I figured that out on my first JavaScript application,
because I immediately found both the browsers I was working with to have
horrible implementations for practical development. I've read books that
use that, to some extent.

This trick provides you a way or reusing some functions and/or data,
but it's not a language intrinsic, it's a way of working around browser
limitations within the means that the browser provides you for loading
code into the parser. I don't know how one would find this kind of
trick if one needed to know about it, though. Most people developing
JavaScript with browsers just couldn't care less if it doesn't make
users' mouse pointers flutterier or their status bars tackier or their
right mouse buttons less functional or whatever. -- To get back onto
the topic of software hate.

Off software hate again: I've yet to find a JS resource in paper or
electronic form that doesn't target that kind of inane crap, rather
than general-purpose development in a browser context. Admittedly I
spend little enough time doing this that I haven't tried to throw much
money at the problem, but the money I have thrown has gone pretty much
entirely toward telling me how, when doing such inane crap, to detect
and play nicely with both Internet Explorer and Netscape, neither of
which I really could give a dead goldfish for.

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