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In this video, Chris Bryant of Microsoft makes an offhand comment that the components of the new Microsoft Office 2010 for Web are "some of the biggest Javascri
by andreyf 17y ago
In this video, Chris Bryant of Microsoft makes an offhand comment that the components of the new Microsoft Office 2010 for Web are "some of the biggest Javascript applications ever built"
Yuk, big does not necessarily imply good. From the video, it looks like they've ported as much of the Office applications as possible directly into the browser. The only UI changes are the pieces they had to disregard because the browser didn't support them.
Whatever "web 2.0" is, it isn't the same old applications now running in the browser instead of MFC.
- JBiserkov 17y agoWhen comparing Office 2007 (and 2010) with Office 97 one can clearly see these are not "the same old apps". Especially when combined with the Office Servers. JavaScript isn't such a bad language. It's essentially Scheme in C cloths. It has first-class functions, lexical closures, prototype-inheritance and more. Just avoid the bad parts. See this Google Talk by Douglas Crockford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
- mdg 17y agoyes. I always feel like javascript is never learned "the right way". I feel this way because when I first learned it, I was essentially trying to write java code. I wonder why no one ever tells javascript noobies that functions limit scope, not {} ?