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There are a lot of "what ifs" in the history of web tech, and considering this article, JSSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets http://en.wik
by etal 18y ago
There are a lot of "what ifs" in the history of web tech, and considering this article, JSSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets) versus CSS springs immediately to mind. Using Javascript for styling pages in 1996 may have sounded like needless complexity, but in retrospect it seems like it would have been a much better choice. Whole-page layout deserves a true programming language.
- ambition 18y agoSeparation of presentation from content is good, but presentation is a task of arbitrary complexity and requires arbitrary computation (aka a full programming language) to do properly. Many current frameworks are inadvertently used to bring the power of a programming language to presentation, but most of them don't seem to realize it yet.