John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Fri Oct 5 23:11:03 CDT 2012
Arthur I refer you to a posting I made last week regarding an invitation to all list members to join the maintenance list to discuss these types of things. John B -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:29 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Javascript list People interested in web development are turning increasingly to Javascript, and this turn in part reflects a more general turn away from server-side scripting and toward client-side scripting. This is NOT the same as saying that all the logic of a web app leaves the BE and becomes part of the FE, which impression you might get even upon reading the name of the most popular Javascript library, jQuery. I admit that I was one of those dismissers. As soon as I heard that word, I assumed that jQuery was some sort of front end for SQL -- and it is that, but I soon learned that there exists a wealth of wonderful things that jQuery can do that have nothing at all with SQL queries. What Javascript (hereinafter JS) is really about is modifying the data (page) returned by the web server. There are two other JS libraries of immediate relevance, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobiles, the former providing some way kewl UI controls and the latter able to deal with various mobile platforms, abstracting away their differences so you can write once and deploy everywhere. I propose that we open a new list on our beloved site, devoted to all things concerning Javascript, jQuery, JSON (Javascript Object Notation) and related stuff. -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com