How does Javascript work

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:09:03 -0800, Chris Carlen staggered into the Black Sun and said:

It's not really possible to give a definitive answer to this because teh Intarweb is so large. IME, JavaScript is a lot more common than Java, though.

I don't know for sure. I haven't seen any major problems with JavaScript here (using Firefox 1.0, Mozilla before that) but YMMV. The only real problems I've ever had are when some "web designers" decided to make a useful site's search interface dependent on client-side Visual Baysick, even though the information the site was designed to distribute was all in PDF or HTML. And of course, it's not possible to view an index of the directory where all the PDF and HTML files are kepy, and all the PDF and HTML files are named things like "ZZabc01235.html". ( User-Agent.)

A site should be *usable* as a pure file tree, with no client- or server-side scripts required, even if the functionality available in that mode is less-ugly-confuses the PHBs.

Hrm. What are the URLs that show these behavioral problems? Do these pages render properly in Konqueror?

Java was a great idea with a terrible implementation--like so many other things in the computer world.

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