Re: [JSMentors] Lua in browser as an alternative to JavaScript

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 11/02/2011 14:35, Peter van der Zee wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Adrian Olaru agol...@gmail.com mailto:agol...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just wondering, why don't we have by now a Lua alternative to JavaScript in the browsers? Shouldn't the question by why do we need an

Re: [JSMentors] Lua in browser as an alternative to JavaScript

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 11/02/2011 14:54, Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote: On 11.02.2011 17:51, Chris Heilmann wrote: On 11/02/2011 14:35, Peter van der Zee wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Adrian Olaru agol...@gmail.com mailto:agol...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just wondering, why don't we have by now a Lua

Re: [JSMentors] Lua in browser as an alternative to JavaScript

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 11/02/2011 15:18, Adrian Olaru wrote: Right now, JavaScript is the way to go. My opinion is that programmers love having more choices. Like on the server we are using Python Ruby or even JavaScript nowadays. But what we've got on the client? Only JavaScript. We had a lot of opportunities to

Re: [JSMentors] Re: Today, Web Development Sucks

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Heilmann
Well written, robust code that uses appropriate feature detection and fall back strategies is not difficult to write. That's why the web is full of that, right? If you write for yourself or an app for your hairdresser, yes. If you write in a company decisions are made by committee, not

Re: [JSMentors] Re: Today, Web Development Sucks

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Heilmann
Some cheese with that whine? All the big libraries are open source and very much in use. If you really are that gifted and care about what people use on the web, file bugs and fix these oh so poorly written libraries. I see comments like this often, but this is easier said than done and I

Re: [JSMentors] JavaScript must die

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 31/01/2011 00:10, Poetro wrote: This is not the problem of the language, but the interpretation and adding scripts to the web page, in case of browser usage. If there could be only one JavaScript tag on the page, and that could load the external scripts, it would be more secure IMHO. Then

Re: [JSMentors] Introductions

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Heilmann
On 15/12/2010 06:42, Luke Smith wrote: I'm Luke Smith (ls_n), a YUI core developer. I'm very interested in the process of learning, teaching, and presenting about JavaScript/web development (and in general, I suppose). These are very interesting times wrt JavaScript and web development.