From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T13:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Browser applications (applets, flash...) with Ruby?

On 9/13/06, Jonas Hartmann <Mail@jonas-hartmann.com> wrote:
>
> While I am really a noob, I still think JavaScript is NOT to LIMITED.
> JavaScript has a bad scent cause there are so many people with really
> NO idea about programming that want "nifty" javascript on their
> webpages ;-(.
>
> While I dont like JavaScript very much, I think its a REAL language
> you can do REAL things with. Maybe you can take a look at CANVAS in
> Safari/Mozilla or SVG and use these tools with JS to write web
> browser, client side, based games.
>

I agree that JavaScript is a real language.. I'd even go so far as to
say that you can do more in JavaScript that in Java.

But, graphical output is very difficult to do in a cross-browser way.
So JS is not that good for certain types of in-browser games.


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