[Catalyst] Re: OT: JS no longer sucks, (was Catalyst - any good AJAX tutes?)

[Ashley]

I started trying to sling JS in 1999 I think. Most of the
things I complained about are resolved now hence my statement
that JS doesn't suck anymore. :) Though some things like
reserved words were still treated differently across
browsers as recently as last year.

On Mar 8, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

> * Ashley <apv at sedition.com> [2009-03-08 19:15]:
>> Well... the lack of regular array operations like push
>
> Are we talking about the same language?
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/ 
> Global_Objects/Array/push
>
>> the disparate and incompatible implementations of regular
>> expressions
>
> Have yet to run into any. Are you sure you’re trying to use
> only ECMAScript standard features?
>
>> some still current syntax disparities like trailing commas
>> or reserved keyword treatment
>
> Yes, IE 6 is old and backward. :-)
>
>> the errors constantly shutting down browsers
>
> Huh?
>
>> operators behaving differently.
>
> Again with the huh…
>
>> I suppose I get what you mean, the spec didn't suck, the
>> implementations did. But we were discussing usage, not design
>> theory. :)
>
> Actually, the spec does suck in various ways, but not too badly,
> and the implementations are reasonably consistent nowadays – at
> least if you exclude IE 6, which is largely in line with modern
> browsers but has a bunch of annoying quirks like the trailing
> comma stupidity.
>
>> ++ to the quoted for the use of cromulent.
>
> That was actually part of the reason I quoted it… :-)
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>
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