It needs to be made clear that there are technical, ethical and business reasons to only use Javascript if it's necessarry
A lot of people reacted quite angrily (outside this website) to the article as they seemed to think I "hated javascript". I don't, it can accomplish wonderful things for websites. What I hate is it being the go to solution for everything ignoring all of the trade-offs you make when you decide to use it.
It's a little dispiriting how I'm not surprised about these results but this is one of the reasons I wrote
The Web I Want
Chris James
It needs to be made clear that there are technical, ethical and business reasons to only use Javascript if it's necessarry
A lot of people reacted quite angrily (outside this website) to the article as they seemed to think I "hated javascript". I don't, it can accomplish wonderful things for websites. What I hate is it being the go to solution for everything ignoring all of the trade-offs you make when you decide to use it.
My colleague and overall amazing guy
David Wickes