Web Axis Powers vs Javascript
Yet another slam against Javascript – this time in Dan Morrill’s blog vs Javascript 2. Dan names AIR, Silverlight, and JavaFX as successors to Javascript because of his prediction that the browser based application of today is destined to be replaced by open standards apps of some other kind.
I can appreciate the arguments the same way I appreciate the arguments against updates to HTML. There are loads of libraries out there that do a great job at extending today’s apps – loads and loads. New versions collide with the support for those versions within existing and future browsers, whereas nicely loading external scripts can add value now without so much trouble.
This particular anti-Javascript group though isn’t really arguing about Javascript, but what they think should replace the browser as a frame of experience (sorry, that’s not intended to be funny). That’s an entirely different argument and predictive of what humans will want to get out of the collective network soup of the future Internet. Javascript should be incrementally improved to put more powerful and streamlined functionality into the hands of site designers who already have years and years of production experience with Javascript, rather than forcing them to learn brand new languages or huge paradigm shifts such as placing a proprietary technology (yeah, Adobe’s said they are opening up Flash – until its actually available, so what) at the center of whatever you create.
