Tagged Questions
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28answers
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How important is graceful degradation of JavaScript?
Should web developers continue to spend effort progressively enhancing our web applications with JavaScript, ensuring that features gracefully degrade, thereby ensuring accessibility? Or should we ...
41
votes
18answers
2k views
Should I Bother To Develop for JavaScript Disabled?
The question is in the title "Should I Bother To Develop for JavaScript Disabled?"
I feel that my time is better spent developing for the majority?
29
votes
10answers
845 views
Is it considered bad practice to have PHP in your JavaScript
So many times on this site I see people trying to do things like this :
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('<?php echo $divID ?>').click(funtion(){
...
22
votes
11answers
2k views
Why aren't there other client-side scripting languages for websites?
Why is there just support for JavaScript and some VBScript in browsers today? I know JavaScript is good and all, but wouldn't having the option of using another programming language help promote ...
19
votes
5answers
696 views
Referencing external javascript vs. hosting my own copy
Say I have a web app that uses jQuery. Is it better practice to host the necessary javascript files on my own servers along with my website files, or to reference them on jQuery's CDN (example: ...
19
votes
9answers
1k views
Why do people disable JavaScript?
I asked a question yesterday Should I Bother to Develop For JavaScript Disabled?. I think the consencus is: Yes, I should develop for JavaScript Disabled. Now I just want to understand why users ...
11
votes
3answers
334 views
JavaScript and the paradigm shift in web programming
If my memory serves me right, there was a time when using JavaScript for web development was hugely frowned upon, because among other things, it was a privacy and security concern for users and some ...
11
votes
6answers
448 views
Common Javascript mistakes that severely affect performance?
At a recent UI/UX MeetUp that I attended, I gave some feedback on a website that used Javascript (jQuery) for its interaction and UI - it was fairly simple animations and manipulation, but the ...
10
votes
5answers
452 views
How do I make sense of the javascript frameworks explosion ? Should I learn them all?
For a beginner web developer who is still doing web development the conventional way (PHP/J2EE/Struts on server side, HTML/CSS/Javascript on client side), I was bowled over by the recent blog post on ...
10
votes
12answers
857 views
What benefits are there to native JavaScript development?
Given how much simpler jQuery development is, when compared to native JavaScript, what makes people forgo libraries like jQuery altogether?
Is this because jQuery has limitations or it is slow? I ...
10
votes
2answers
190 views
How do mashups work with same-orgin policy?
If Javascript is only allowed to access scripts from the same domain, how can a website create mashups which must read and modify content from another domain?
10
votes
6answers
1k views
Should I learn Javascript before Coffeescript?
I'm a reasonably experienced programmer trying to learn web developement. I'm trying to develop a client-side web application which uses svg or canvas for graphics. I've decided I'd like to write ...
10
votes
4answers
614 views
Design/Architecture Patterns & Practices for Web Development [closed]
Edited for brevity:
What software engineering tools/practices and design/architectural patterns are used in web application development? What tools and practices would large companies or large web ...
9
votes
4answers
310 views
Has the time gone to think about user with JavaScript disabled in browser? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I Bother To Develop for JavaScript Disabled?
In this Modern time of
HTML5 API
jQuery
Modernizr
HTML5 Shim
Respond.JS
Google Chrome app store
Canvas
Has the ...
9
votes
4answers
2k views
Which Java based web ui framework to use?
Wicket
Click
GWT
Vaadin
As I understand them, these frameworks all enable gui components to be created using java (with all its benefits) without having to do lots of html/javascript.
As well as ...