In article <4da7abad$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> What they give is ubiquity, which is a point in their favour. But just > because something is common doesn't make it useful: for the most part > both are used for style over substance, of sizzle without sausage, rather > than anything actually useful or desirable: think of a misfeature that > *degrades* the user-experience, and chances are it's implemented in Flash > or Javascript on tens of thousands of sites. There's certainly a lot to hate about JS (and even more so, flash), but they fill a niche. They provide a way to have better user interaction than you could with just forms and a submit button. That's not to say there's not lot of sucky shit build with them. But, if they didn't exist, something else would have to take their place. I don't see JS going away any time soon. Flash, on the other hand, is an unadulterated pile of dung. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
