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But then your site will only work with people who have installed the plugin that you depend on! That model doesn't seem like it would work very well to me, sinc

by cryptoz 16y ago

But then your site will only work with people who have installed the plugin that you depend on! That model doesn't seem like it would work very well to me, since there's no way every single browser will have support for 30 different scripting languages. There'd be a plugin-hell; it's much better if we all standardize on a language like we have.

kenjackson 16y ago
The point you have is a valid one, but I feel like it shouldn't be. For example, the fact that you say there'd be plugin-hell with 30 plugins is crazy. A good management system should be able to efficiently handle hundreds or even millions of components. And what if we standardized support for the scripting languages? So, for example, the DOM calls looked like RESTFUL services returning JSON. And maybe there was a low-level, but efficient virtual machine that everyone could target (someone mentioned LLVM -- although I really don't care what it is all that much). It just feels like the web is in this weird cycle where we continue to make suboptimal choices... largely because that's how it was done the first time.