Thanks for the info.
John
Chris Rasch wrote:
>
> >
> > The open source community must focus directly on a consensus surrounding
> > easy to use, efficient, and robust RAD tools. My thought with Mozilla
> > is that with just few important add-ons, one could "come to market" very
> > quickly with a lot of value added for the physician. However, I am
> > somewhat dismayed at the thought of embracing Javascript. Isn't
> > Javascript a proprietary bizarre language that belongs to Netscape and
> > is not really supported/described anywhere? Is the source to Javascript
> > available? Everytime I've looked at Javascript, I've come away
> > disturbed and perplexed. What am I missing?
> >
> > John
>
> I don't know about the practical appropriateness of javascript (from a user
>interface standpoint, it's easy to abuse, and it appears to
> currently have security issues that one would have to be careful to work around, see
> http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/08/10/049200.shtml), but it's license is listed
>as being among the the GPL compatible licenses on the
> GNU foundation's web site: see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html.
>
> Chris
