On Apr 12, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Christian Seberino wrote:
The only thing I can see stopping Javascript from taking over the world is M$'s slowness to fix compatibility problems in IE. That may be enough to sink your favorite technology I'm afraid. Perhaps AJAX will work aroundthe problems until IE improves? One can hope.
AJAX is Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Which makes the above statement amusing to me, because it's already happening. Most of the "AJAX libraries" that are available do extensive testing to see what browser they're running in to select the best (i.e., non-broken) method for getting something done. So, to an extent, it's already happening.
The problem with Javascript, as Andrew and Stewart will happily point out, is that there is absolutely _zero_ security model with Javascript. I'm pretty sure you could have an AJAX app start uploading random files from your hard drive to a server of your choosing and the user would be none the wiser unless you completely tanked his/her bandwidth. Even then, they'd be puzzling over why everything is so slow.
I need to break out my Javascript book and see just what you can do without needing to ask permission via the browser...
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