[Info-vax] [OT] The wonders of Javascript...

[Richard Maher]

On 3/2/2015 4:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> Good point. A better description would be an undefined variable error.
>

A SSCCE is always good but your moaning implies a couple of lines posted 
here could reproduce it?

While Javascript certainly has its share of issues I (and a big slice of 
the development world) love it!!! And the debugging available today on 
FireFox, Chrome, Opera and even IE is soooo good you'd have to be pretty 
damn thick to not trap a simple bug such as you suggest. Sure 
phone/mobile emulation is not quite there yet but is getting better 
every release. And turning CSS attributes on/off at will - outstanding.

Tell you what, why don't you get VSI to bring out DECForms 3. People 
like you and Phillip and Brian long for the good ol' DECWindows days, 
why not an IFDL capable browser??? Remember those wondrous debugging 
capabilities? "You are on the left side of the equation." :-(

I just wish Oracle hadn't killed Applets 'cos now I'm having to use a 
web worker to re-scan my array of Markers to see if their LatLng is 
inside or outside the (0.5 opacity) circle that the user is dragging 
over the Google Map. Still, it frees up the event loop and all the 
worker thread has to do is feed back hit/miss so the GUI/main thread can 
update the screen.

Yep you keep developing character-cell apps in BASIC, or use the 
worst-performing most out-of-date browser on the planet on your 
DECWindows workstation and consign VSI to go down the toilet with the 
very same dumb-fucks who killed Digital with DECForms (please don't say 
you've hired any?).