Re:Don't bother (Score 1)

I once believed that Javascript was a toy language that was not worth the time. And once upon a time that was true. But times have changed. Today, Javascript is a suprisingly useful language.

My area of expertise is telework, or remotely hosted applications. I've been writing PHP/SQL databases for years, and the end result always feels like a web page, not a program. In order to make an web based application "feel" like an application, Javascript is the thing.

Take, for instance, Game Lib, a javascript library for writing games. These games are far more "cross-platform" than anything else out there. Or Javascript Windows, which simulates multiple browser windows in a single web page - even allowing form submission with reloading the document. And how about that DHTML debugger written in Javascript ? You can't do those things in PHP.

I find that the Javascript/PHP/SQL can be used to create cross-platform, remotely hosted applications. And until we, as the development community, start taking advantage of Javascript, it will continue to be buggy in all the browsers. Once we make it a standard part of the process, then the web browsers will make more of an effort to support it.