By Volume4
via css.dzone.com
Published: Nov 26 2008 / 12:59
Some time ago, I had lunch with a former colleague I last saw in 2000, when we were working together in a project. We got to talking, and eventually he asked me an interesting question.
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Dave Newton replied ago:
JavaScript is much maligned, despite being a pretty decent language, minus the few well-known screwups. I tend to think this question is often meant as "You STILL work in the browser?" because most of the issues we run in to are cross-browser CSS or DOM issues, which things like Flex take care of. Of course, if you're working with Flex, you're working with next-gen JavaScript (next-next-gen, I guess), which makes the question a little weirder.
willcode4beer replied ago:
It's the reversal of development.
In the old days, the complex code was on the back-end, and the web layer was considered simple.
Nowadays, (especially with modern frameworks) complex back-end code is an anti-patten (to be shunned). The increase of dynamic activity of the front-end has transformed that into the more complex layer of development.
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