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Old November 10th, 2003, 07:42 PM
Miguel Cruz
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Deep Freud Moors wrote:
Well, Javascript is just fine, but Java, (which is of course something
completely different) is slow, cumbersome, and just plain crappy IMO.
Generally speaking, err on the side of simplicity when building web
stuff.

Here's something that I did just with Javascript and a bunch of
images. Nothing too spectacular...
http://www.geocities.com/deepfloydmars/


But this illustrates the frequent problem with javascript: Since the object
models and other tedious minutiae differ so much from one implementation to
another, it's a lot of work to write stuff that reliably works for everyone
(or gracefully falls back when it's not going to work). When I click on the
question marks, they just turn into smaller question marks:

http://u.nu/dfm_screenshot.jpg

miguel
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