This isn't bad, or good. Having this type of control, for certain use cases can be perfectly valid. It also feels Flash like. The javascriptists began on a j

This isn't bad, or good. Having this type of control, for certain use cases can be perfectly valid. It also feels Flash like. The javascriptists began on a journey 15 years ago to replace Flash. Things have gotten more complicated before becoming simpler, but maybe things will head in a direction soon. Flash itself was actionscript (ECMAScript) which is the same syntax as Javascript.