The Return of JavaSript
A few days ago a friend of mine was telling me he doesn’t get the reason for all the hype about JavaScript that has been in place recently. Even though I always considered JavaScript one of my favorite programming languages, I obviously acknowledged that it had lost some popularity after its original usage boom. And I had no ready answer to give him other than speculating about a possible fad cycle theory (many people talking about it after the first DHTML stuff, then most letting go of it simply cause they haven’t fully understood it — until someone came up with Ajax, and all the fuss was back, etc). But today I was reading an article that a contact of mine shared via Google Reader, and I think I might have found at least part of the answer:
“It will be interesting to see how Microsoft will improve IE for its cloud computing platform Windows Azure, when Firefox, Safari and Chrome already offer the technology to run JavaScript-heavy cloud services effectively.”
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“The real problem with IE8 is that it completely missed the boat on the most important trend in browser development these days – JavaScript acceleration.”
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