Whoah. Pilgrim on the Parade
I’ve been pleasantly watching the releases of Apollo and Silverlight over the past few days, and just sort of thinking, “oh, nice, new things to play around with.” Then comes Mark Pilgrim with a dose of cranky, yet wildly accurate ranting.
Meanwhile, I’m really enjoying my new found need of Javascript. I’m doing lots of neat AJAX’y things, the sorts of stuff that everyone else was doing months ago, so I’m sort of primed for the argument of, “don’t buy into these corporate re-do’s of the web, stick with the open web…stick…with…the…open…web.”
Sounds good to me, I guess. Yet, at the same time, everytime M$ & Company say the words Ruby or Python, it gets that much easier to say the same words in front of a somewhat backwards potential tech customer and not get booted out the door. So, the tally so far: big companies reinventing the web –, big companies putting good words in press releases ++.
As an aside, please never trim your fingernails at your desk during work hours within earshot of me. It’s really goddamn gross.
I’ve been working on Javascript client code for the last 6 months. In my opinion you can do pretty much anything in js. I think it was pretty horrible before people started using XMLHttpRequest or alternatives. Also I think it was necessary to format the display using tables in the early days, and a lot of example code still does that. But those problems all solved now.
steve
2 May 07 at 2:37 pm
> As an aside, please never trim your fingernails at
> your desk during work hours within earshot of me.
> It’s really goddamn gross.
No, it’s not, deal with it. B-P
Nicola Larosa
2 May 07 at 3:19 pm
The substance of Mark’s ‘point’ was that buying into a closed platform will land you in trouble.
As far as Silverlight goes, there is likely to be a fully open version (courtesy of Mono) by the end of year.
Personally I find the idea of client-side browser programming with Python too compelling not to try it…
Fuzzyman
4 May 07 at 7:19 am
@Fuzzyman: totally agreed on “too compelling not to try it…”
I like Mark’s original post, I know where he’s coming from, and I mostly agree with him, but it won’t stop me from playing around with new toys.
Chris
Chris McAvoy
6 May 07 at 8:41 am