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JavaScript (was Re: Cross-domain loading of XML)

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:15:04 -0500

On 12/8/10 8:06 PM, Kurt Cagle wrote:
> David,
>
> There's a reason JavaScript web developers are often called script
> kiddies ... formalisms are often wasted on them. There's a great deal of
> nudge,nudge, wink, wink in the AJAX world.

That's also changing pretty rapidly.

I'd be _very_ cautious about looking down on JavaScript developers, and 
not only because I am one.  What's that I heard recently?  "It used to 
be that if you used JavaScript, no one took you seriously.  Now no one 
takes you seriously if you _don't_ use JavaScript."

One thing XML could really stand to lose is its condescension toward the 
greater Web world.  It was here when I arrived, and doesn't seem to have 
melted away.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

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