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Submitted: Apr 17 2008 / 06:04

So this has happened to me a few times recently (mentioning no names) — I read up on some neat trick or other that somebody’s figured out in JavaScript, and I’m like ooh that’s cool, I wonder how it works. So I follow it up, only to find out that the author doesn’t know how it works, and reading their code throws no light on it either, because most of the work is done by an external framework.
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mezmo replied ago:

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On one hand I agree with him, I just about refuse to use anything until I have a pretty good idea of how it works, on the other, he's advocating a return to the stone age, no thanks.

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kogent replied ago:

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aren't all these js frameworks OSS? if its that big of a deal he can look up the source in the framework and be done with it.

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