Re: Prototype - Good/Bad/Why?

On Feb 20, 2:29 pm, "Richard Cornford" <Rich...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Yes, in the long rung Jim Ley's influence on browser scripting practices may

I don't know what I've read that was written by Jim himself. Are there
any particular articles?

be as great as Douglas Crockford's influence of javascript code authoring.
But that will be after User Agent string browser sniffing had disappeared
for good, and unfortunately recent trends have been in the wrong direction.

Are you sure they are heading in the wrong direction? I don't think
that is really the case. The libraries do slowly remove sniffs when
learn about a better way. I think that many programmers want to do the
right thing but don't know how to do it.

I've gathered information about feature detection and cross-browser
scripts from members of this group over the past couple years. The
knowledge here is the best available on the Internet but I think it is
true that the responses to questions can sometimes be too blunt and/or
rude. I survived this abuse and appreciate being given straight
answers. But imagine a person who is interested in learning something
new but is slightly insecure about being seen making mistakes. I think
just one response on c.l.js may send them running. This is a shame
because they loose out, others loose out by hearing c.l.js is a bunch
of trolls and the browser scripting profession doesn't benefit from
the group. To a certain degree the group's behavior impedes one
apparent goal of improving the over all standard of browser scripting.
It doesn't mean people with bad code need to be congratulated but they
don't need to read responses about how stupid they are etc.

I'm attempting to leak some of the information I've gathered from the
group about browser scripting to the "outside world". I've posted a
couple articles on my blog and hope they have a decent number of
visitors. More articles will help spread the word. Not everyone is
going to come here for the information.

Peter
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