3 ms·
"Before prototype, mootools, and jQuery etc., JavaScript frankly sucked." Proto, mootools and jQuery are written in JavaScript. So your statement compiles to "
by misuba 16y ago
"Before prototype, mootools, and jQuery etc., JavaScript frankly sucked."
Proto, mootools and jQuery are written in JavaScript. So your statement compiles to "JavaScript sucked until people figured out what it could do."
(Which is essentially your larger point, but still.)
- chime 16y ago> "JavaScript sucked until people figured out what it could do." Actually yes. Do you remember any amazing JS apps from 2002? IE6 has been around since 2001 and even on slow machines, it can still run most of the JS apps (provided you make the fruitless effort to support it). Where were the JS apps in 2002? Only things people used JS for were form validation and annoyances. I know these frameworks are written in JS. What I meant to say was that very few people had actually used JS to its full potential and capabilities till just 5 years ago when protoype/scriptaculous/RoR and apps like Google Maps started to show up. I wrote an Ajax-enabled app for IE6 in 2003 and it was so much more work than $.ajax({url:foo,callback:bar});
- wazoox 16y agoThere was the nice "asteroids" microsoft DHTML demo. But Microsoft was afraid of DHTML...
- bobbyi 16y ago> Do you remember any amazing JS apps from 2002? Yes, I remember Outlook Web Access providing a desktop-caliber mail client in the browser using ajax and javascript.
- cubicle67 16y agofor rather low values of desktop-caliber