Re:CSS Purge
by davidjnelson on Friday May 20, 2016 @07:05PM
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Really? I've never met a designer that wrote js. Engineers should be writing the software. Js web apps are essentially the same as c++ win32 ( or whatever thick client side tech ) apps with some web semantics like urls preserved. I've seen designers write css, and I think the good ones do, but I've never met one that was happy to or was particularly skilled at it.
There is a recent inclination among designers to write JS and take part in writing front-end code. Youtube is full of their talks.
JS/Hypertext was not initially meant for engineering anyting, so it's not analogous to a combination of UI toolkit & proper programming language & a compiler.
Re:CSS Purge
by davidjnelson on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:33PM
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Huh. Js has certainly evolved though, I mean check out how v8 compiles down to assembly and accesses object properties directly at a fixed memory offset: http://www.developerknowhow.com/995/why-the-v8-javascript-en...
They also write a lot of JS and CSS that face the web. I didn't want to say that they should learn/know CS, but just some basics of computing, if they're going to write code that runs on others' machines (JS).
> Also from your other comment you would like Ajax to not be used in websites?
I would like the normal behaviour of browser widgets (links, buttons, forms) let alone. New widgets are OK with me, e.g. an interactive map, a carousel, a dropdown menu. You get to define the behaviour of these tools, but a button, a link etc. has an associated meaning with them.