Eero Tamminen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ext Simon Budig wrote: > >> Why JavaScript would be slower than the other interpreted languages > >> like Python, Perl etc? > > > > It is not only the language itself, it is also the latency involved for > > contacting the (although local) webserver and/or recomputing the layout > > of the page. > > Er. Why you would want to get your (JavaScript) program through > a (local) webserver instead of having it just in a (HTML) file?
Because you cannot save a state if you're just working with html files from the filesystem... > PS. I'm not suggesting using this for anything serious, but for things > like IP-mask calculators etc it should be fine. True enough, if it is just about simple calculators or whatever which is not supposed to have any persistant effect, then HTML+JS might work fine. Bye, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users