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Everyone's told you that you look like a doll, now show them how well you play the role when you wear the Rag Doll Wig. This bright red, yarn wig features two pigtails and will perfectly top off your rag doll costume.
You may have owned some rag dolls in the past, but it's guaranteed that none of them were quite like this Evil Rag Doll! This vicious doll holds a spool of thread in one hand as she gnaws on a needle with some blood dripping from her mouth.
…a doll! Bring back a simpler time with your little one in this Rag Doll Toddler Costume. Your doll face will be cute as a button in this adorable rag doll costume, complete with Short sleeved dress with attached apron and Cap with yarn hair. Don't forget the old barber-pole style Rag Doll Stockings,…
Whether you're a Raggedy Ann or Andy, these classic rag doll stockings ever-popular, classic stockings add an authentic rag doll touch to your costume. Just pull up these red and white striped stockings and you're ready to clown around the circus or the playground.
Take a different approach to your baby doll look in this Rag Doll Girls Child Costume. Black, white, and red patterned dress provides a Gothic twist on the traditional Halloween costume. No pink frills and bows for you!
Do it for the kids, or do it for yourself - either way you'll have a blast when you dress in the Rag Doll Man Adult Costume. This white hat features red yarn hair and comes complete with a red and white checkered top and blue overalls.
This is no ordinary rag doll! This Gothic Rag Dog wig will convert your costume from a storybook tale to a ghost story, just in time for Halloween. Complete your Goth or ghoul costume with this killer cool wig.
Get thrown into the Halloween spirit in the Rag Doll Lady Adult Women's Costume. This old school favorite features a blue dress with white polka dots, red trim, a lace-up detail and a white mob hat.
Patch up your little one in this Rag Dolly Toddler Costume. At least your rascal will be looking adorable on Halloween wearing this pink dress, polka dot bloomers with attached striped leggings, and bonnet with attached yarn wig.
Rock the cradle - not! This is one scary baby doll face. Let's face it, a mask is an easy way to transform yourself into something scary, creepy or crazy for Halloween. This Creepy Baby Doll Mask is just the thing to bring back all those dysfunctional childhood memories.
There's something sad about a cast off doll or a cast off clown toy. There's also something spooky about it's cracked and crazed face with faded paint details - who knows what really lurks beneath the painted facade? Create the costume and character of your choice with this Clown Doll mask.
Are you drawing a total blank? Did you blank out and awake to a vast nothingness? Is that really a blank expression on your face or do you have no face at all? What lurks behind the Blank Doll Face mask - you decide if it is good or evil.
This cute little rag doll has a wicked side that you can only get to know from bringing her home with you. The Haunted Tragedy Doll has seen a lot of horror in her days. Unfortunately, she's been the cause of more than her fair share. Give her a new home...if you dare!
Tell the other dolls to watch out because this broken doll is coming out to play on Halloween! Plaid and polka dot frilly dress includes attached cracked skin sleeves with matching leggings. Chipped china doll mask and top hat are also included.
…revenge on the one who broke your smooth porcelain skin wearing this Broken Doll Girls Costume! Tutu dress combines plaid and polka dot patterns and includes attached shattered skin sleeves with matching leggings. Cracked face mask gives you a haunted look so you'll leave a mark on everyone you come…
Not all dolls prefer pink frills and poofy dresses! If you're more of a black velor and red lace kind of gal, you may be a good fit for this Goth Doll Tween Costume on Halloween. Knee length black dress has flared sleeves, hood, and includes white china doll mask, and fishnet tights.
Add some horrifying details to your haunted house when you decorate with the Mini Neglected Dimple Doll. This creepy doll features blood dripping from sunken black eyes and cracked forehead detail along with tattered rags.
Complete your gorgeous ragdoll costume with this Doll Pink Curly Adult Wig. Pink shaded hair features two black bows along with tight pink and purple curls.
You won't exactly look up for fun and games in this Victorian Doll Adult Womens Costume, but you'll still have people enthralled in wonder. Dark dress with webbed sleeves, sheer fringed parasol, half mask and mini top hat will make you a little unconventional in a mysterious way.
This doll may be beaten up, but she is on a vengeful mission to destroy this Halloween in the Broken Doll Adult Women's Costume. Embrace the dark side of Halloween in this flouncy plaid dress with sheer-shouldered shrug, matching hat and creepy face mask.
Even if you were broke, surely someone out there will still play with you when you wear this Broken Doll Blue Curly Adult Wig. Blue hair features black bows along with tight blue and purple curls.
Do what you gotta do to make it real on Halloween. Look the part when you complete your hip hop costume with this black Hip Hop do rag and get down on Halloween.
Complete your evil rag doll costume when you add this Gothic Doll Red and Black Curls Adult Wig to your wardrobe. Gorgeous red hair features black bows and tight red and black curls.
Chucky from Child's Play 2, looking just as cuddly as ever. Complete the set with the rest of his family: Bride of Chucky, Tiffany and Seed of Chucky.


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Bats, Water, Soil, and Bridges- an Engineer's dream
Want to know how bats may effect your engineering plans? Want to hear about cool new bridges? Read on.
Over the past month, I've had the pleasure of attending two events hosted by the North Carolina Chapter of the ACEC (American Council of Engineering Companies). The first of these was the Joint Transportation Conference, held in conjunction with the NC DOT. The second was the annual ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards. At both events, I learned interesting information that engineers should know. Today, I will discuss the Transportation Conference, including some new regulations and unusual design methods. I will save the highlights from the Excellence Awards for later this week.
1. It's a cave, it's a bat, it's bats, man! Did you know that your future bridge project may be effected by the Northern Long-Eared Bat? It's true. Right now, the federal government is considering listing the bat on the Endangered Species List, due to the 98-99% mortality rate the bats are experiencing due to "white nose syndrome". Over 1,700 projects in North Carolina could be impacted, including work on bridges, culverts, abandoned buildings, and guardrails–essentially, any activity involving tree clearing, structure demolition/removal, or structure maintenance. On November 26th, 2014, the US Fish and Wildlife Service extended the comment period to discuss the implications of listing the bat on the endangered species list. If the bat is listed, there is no grandfathering of projects. All projects will immediately be required to engage in protective activities. Stay tuned, but be aware that your transportation projects could be effected starting sometime next year.
2. Is that a pirate on your map or is it worse–soil contamination?
At the conference, we also heard from the GeoEnvironmental Section of NC DOT on their geologic symbols for known or potential contamination. Known contamination consists of soil or ground water samples that have been analyzed; or by evidence of such contamination as cracked transformers, battery casings, unusual odors while excavating, or new anecdotal information about past use. Potential contamination, in contrast, is for areas where there is no data, but historical maps or photos which indicate current or assumed past uses of possible contamination, such as gas stations, dry cleaner facilities, auto body facilities, chemical manufacturers, landfills, and manufacturing plants. Both known and potential contamination sites are important for designers, as they consider:
- large cuts, drainage, utilities, or stream relocations in contaminated areas
- selecting chemical resistant construction materials
- additional costs for materials, remediation
- other unanticipated costs or complications
3. Water, water everywhere! We also heard what's new with the Highway Stormwater Program, including the updated Post-Construction Stormwater Program and the companion Stormwater BMP Toolbox manual. To learn more about these programs, check out:
- The NCDOT Stormwater website, which contains useful links; and
- The Highway Stormwater youtube chancel of training videos, which is still in development but will include environmental sensitivity maps, nutrient load accounting tools, and stormwater management plans.
4. Cool, cool bridges One of the highlights of the conference was hearing about some truly unique bridge designs, including:
- The Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing, in New York, featuring twin-tower cable stayed structures and all electronic toll collection
- Vietnam's Dragon Bridge, a truly working piece of art; and
- The Milton-Madison Bridge Slide, (Indiana/Kentucky) the longest bridge slide in North America. The Milton-Madison Bridge Slide was a feat of engineering design. Using "truss sliding" a new 2,427 foot long truss was moved along steel rails and plates and "slid" into place atop the existing, rehabilitated, bridge piers.
What about you? Did you attend the conference? If so, what insight did you take away? Share in the comments, below.
Photo credits: Bats ; soil marks from NCDOT presentation; Dragon Bridge
We have beer! (Marketing Tip)
I saw this sign outside the Jacksonville, North Carolina regional airport. For those of you who don't know, Jacksonville is home to Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corp base. Many of the passengers are coming from or going to the base.
Think a Marine on R&R might like a brewskie or two? Probably so. Thus the sign Yes We have Beer.
Like it or not, we're all in the marketing business. Yes, you are a design professional, and went to school for years to be a licensed architect or a registered engineer. But, you also need to keep the clients coming in, and cash flow flowing. So today's marketing tip: remember your audience!
It's a simple thing, but something that many folks forget. Write the proposal or your brochure copy with the client in mind, not to impress the client with your erudite vocabulary (Yes, I'm using the word erudite — I saw the movie Divergent this weekend, so it can't be helped!)
Photo: "We Have Beer" by Melissa Brumback
Preparing for the Tax Man: Tips for Architects, Engineers, and other small business owners (guest post)
Miss me yet? No, I'm "not dead yet" (for you Monty Python fans). Nor have I fled to Hong Kong (a la Edward Snowden). And no, contrary to rumors, I am not working on a Middle Eastern documentary with Jon Stewart. Ahem. My MIA status was simply due to too much work. Good problem to have, right?
Regular posting will resume next week. In the meantime, since it is, once again, tax time for quarterly filers, I thought this guest post on tax issues particularly appropriate. Even if you don't file quarterlies, pay attention now to save heart ache at the end of the year!
Looking for a few small-business tax tips? Consider this shortlist to help streamline your process:
1. Proper record-keeping: Year-round record keeping ensures that come tax time, your paperwork will be in order. Make sure that you save all documents relating to deductions in case your business is audited. Because tax credits and deductions change from year-to-year, keeping excellent records allows you to adapt while being able to reference previous years simply by checking your filing.
2. Keep two Acts in mind: Both the Small Business Jobs Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") help you manage your tax burden. The first has over 17 tax provisions that decrease taxes for small businesses, all of which can win your business great savings. The Affordable Care Act allows small businesses to cover 35 percent of the health care premiums that they pay to provide health insurance to employees. In 2014, the amount will increase to 50 percent.
3. Avoid an audit: Audit traps are indicators to the IRS that they need to investigate your business dealings further. Avoid this scenario by keeping the following details straight:
Home Office Deduction rules: Know what qualifies a home office and make sure yours abides by the IRS definition before claiming one. Not all home-based businesses qualify for this deduction.
Properly classify your employees: Independent contractors and employees are not one and the same from an IRS perspective and should not be treated as such. Non-compliance with proper classification is a red flag to the IRS that your business may be attempting to avoid payroll taxes and can result in back taxes and penalties.
Miscellaneous deductions: Be cautious with your deductions, as a large amount of itemized deductions can raise suspicion. Be sure that you have all of your paperwork to support any deductions and claim them in a clear and specific manner.
Business and personal expenses do not mix: While Turbotax encourages freelancers to combine business with pleasure and write off the expenses, the IRS does not welcome this blended method and will scrutinize individuals who combine their business and personal expenses too often. Maintain separate bank accounts for your personal life and business and maintain meticulous records to ensure that your actions do not require further attention.
Whether you have an accountant or do your business taxes yourself, knowing the proper way to file is an excellent policy for a small and growing business. By maintaining clean records and staying aware of IRS policies, you can make the most of business deductions and enjoy a penalty-free tax season.
Chelsea Terris provides online content for Meticulous Plumbing, a family owned company located in Portland, OR. Chelsea is passionate about helping small businesses thrive.
Thanks Chelsea for the tax tips!
Architects & Engineers – Liaising With Contractors (guest post)
Today's guest post is by David Morrison. David has worked on both sides of the construction site during his time in renovation. Having stepped from the gravel pit into the office a few years ago, David currently now works with UK Tool Centre, liaising with the industry on their behalf.
Working as a site engineer or lead architect has many challenges and is undoubtedly one of the toughest roles, interwoven around effective communication skills with the clients as well as the site contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.
Since maintaining discipline and accountability is at the core of any successful venture, the same is true for a construction site also. The site engineer plays the "unwanted" role of implementing carrot and stick policy, awarding the effective contractor and dealing with the laggard.
For those beginning their engineering and architectural careers, or for those who still struggle to maintain a tight ship when dealing with contractors, there are a number of things to keep in mind.
a.) Organizing Self - The way a site engineer organizes his work plays a very important role in meeting the final objective and let the workplace run as a team. The first and most important thing is to set an example by doing things in the same manner as you are requiring and expecting from the contractors.
b.) Be Clear - A site engineer must ensure that the contractors have clear instructions, drawings and specifications related to their work. Otherwise the "garbage in; garbage out" rule shall be applicable to the final outcome.
c.) Work Milestones - A site engineer should coordinate with the general contractor, who in turn should use professional project management tools, define work milestones and interact with the subcontractors to keep an eye on their timely completion. If any issues arise, they must be addressed quickly, so that the contractor or subcontractor's work is not delayed.
d.) Performance Appraisal - Informing a contractor of his performance quality is only half the job; informing him in a timely manner is the remaining half. The site engineer should develop methods of regular assessment of work of each prime contractor, and should include this information in regular project meetings. This allows the site contractor to timely identify the gaps (both related to man and machine) in his work and to take action to complete the work successfully.
e.) Teamwork, Motivation and Inspiration - To foster teamwork among various site contractors, a site engineer should know how to dig into his own experience of similar works. He should always work to motivate them by giving good and bad examples out of his experience. A well experienced site engineer always have lots of good advice from his earlier encounters to inspire the contractors and give them potential solutions to difficult tasks and situations.
f.) Prompt Payments - A site engineer must always ensure that as per contractual terms with contractors the payment for the various milestones must be promptly processed and done without any delay. This is of utmost importance in getting the work done from contractors on a construction site.
g.) Safety - A site engineer must always ensure that contractors shall never compromise on safety and security rules to expedite the work. A bad accident can be devastating, to the individuals involved and also to the project schedule.
h.) Friendship, Philosophy and Guidance - A site engineer should know how to work as a friend-philosopher and guide to the contractors and must not always act as bully. After all, the contractor may have some genuine issues with the design team's performance as well.
Advice for construction is ten to the dozen and there are a lot of potential misguiding mantras out there. One of the most useful to take into account has always been: "It may take a lifetime to learn the ways to deal with contractors on-site, and still a lot will be left to learn."
Thanks David. Now it's your turn. Thoughts, comments, questions? Share in the comment section below.
Photo courtesy Teaching Underground.
When Running a Project, Don't Think Like an Architect! (guest post)(Tue Tip)
Today, we welcome back Christopher G. Hill as guest author. Chris is a LEED AP, Virginia Supreme Court certified mediator, lawyer and owner of the Richmond, VA firm, The Law Office of Christopher G. Hill, PC. Chris has been nominated and elected by his peers to Virginia's Legal Elite in the Construction Law category on multiple occasions and is a member of the Virginia Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" for 2011 and 2012. He concentrates his practice on mechanic's liens, contract review and consulting, occupational safety issues (VOSH and OSHA), and risk management for construction professionals.
Chris authors the Construction Law Musings blog where he discusses legal and policy issues relevant to construction professionals. Additionally, Chris is active in the Associated General Contractors of Virginia and the Board of Governors of Construction Law and Public Contracts Section of the Virginia State Bar. Most importantly, Chris' blog was a personal inspiration to me as I set about my own blog back in 2009. Welcome Chris!
First and foremost, thanks to my pal Melissa for the opportunity to post here at her great blog.
Now that the formalities are out of the way, I will explain the title of this guest offering. When Melissa first contacted me for my thoughts on poor project management from the contractor's perspective, my first thought on how to avoid causing friction was "Don't think like an architect."
Before you flip the switch and head off for another post, possibly even another blog, hear me out. Yes, I know that much of the audience for this piece is likely to be architects and other design professionals. Yes, I know that all of you try hard. But no, not all of you can run a job smoothly when acting as an Owner's representative on a project (as opposed to designing a great building). I'm here to help with my "musings" (see how I did that?) gained from years of representing the folks that you all seem to think are trying to ruin a project: contractors and subcontractors.
The main thing that both "sides" of this equation need to remember is that you are all in this together. Without your approval, the GC (and by extension the subcontractors and suppliers) on the project won't get paid. Without the GC and its cohorts, you, the architect, will have to listen to an Owner complain about the pace of the project and the fact that you aren't running the project how that Owner wants it run. See? All of us are in the same boat.
Failing to row in the same direction (to continue to beat this metaphor over the head) as the GC and seeing the GC as one that seeks to undermine your beautiful and artistic design sensibilities can only undermine those sensibilities. GC's and subcontractors, if asked nicely early on, can give you great insights into the scheduling, proper materials, and even the best and most efficient building design.
For example, an HVAC subcontractor can help you with the ductwork design in the beginning so that later on you aren't barking at the GC because the subcontractor requested a change order (now waiting on your desk for approval) due to the fact that a load bearing wall would have to be moved in order for the ducts to go where you wanted them. This minor bit of early discussion avoids the issue and keeps the GC and its subs happy, keeps the project on track and avoids messy things like liens and bond claims.
Failure to consult early and often, in a cooperative manner, leads to grumpy GC's, ticked off subs, and a project that slows to a glacial pace. This keeps everyone, including you, from being paid.
I could continue to rant, but you are smart folks. You can do all of that engineering type math and all of that geometry and work with CAD that I decided was too hard so I went to law school. You get the point: you and those that perform the construction at your project are not adversaries. Yes, you represent the owner and want to make sure that the building is built right. However, the best way to do this is to consult early and often. Free information flow is the best way to keep everyone happy and everyone paid.
Thanks again to Melissa for letting me rant.
Thanks, Chris. Ranting with a purpose is always welcome on my blog! Readers, it is your turn. Questions, comments, or rants for Chris or me? Comment below.
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Michelle Obama & Sarah Jessica Parker Celebrate The Arts (Part 2)
Michelle Obama & Sarah Jessica Parker Celebrate The Arts (Part 2)
First Lady Michelle Obama is spearheading the White House's Turnaround Arts program, which helps low-performing schools increase student achievement through access to arts education. The First Lady has enlisted the help of Sarah Jessica Parker, who performed with kids involved in the program at a first-ever White House talent show.
We know what happens when kids are exposed to art, grades go up, attendance goes up, parent participation goes up, it's all good. First lady Michelle Obama is spearheading schools in high poverty areas increase student achievement through access to art education. The first lady has introduced help as Sarah Jessica parker. She performed with the kids involved in the program at a first-ever white house talent show. Well, the dedication of these two ladies is undeniable, as is their style sense. Now, when it comes to style, they are both married, and in their marriages, they are the better halves. You guys are fashion icons, as well as -- No. I mean, really, the clothes are fantastic. Your husbands, on the other hand, how would you describe their style? Evolving. Jeans. That was a long time ago. He's upping his game. If you notice, look a little closely, when he puts on a checked shirt, we go wild, crazy, dad has on color! That's really good, we reward him. Your husband looks like an English professor at some university. He's always in a tweed jacket, right? I think he likes to live in a time machine. I think he'd like it to be about 1942. Does he take fashion advice from you? He will usually when we're supposed to have already left, you know that moment? Can you help me with the tie, but the truth of the matter is, he doesn't need it. I love his taste. I think he has wonderful taste. It's very much his own and I wouldn't want to muddy the waters. Do you text your husband throughout the day, and will he respond? Not throughout the day. He would respond -- If you send him one, he'd know about it, he has it on him? Yes, he would, but we work and live in the same place, so if I really need to see him, I'll walk downstairs. We don't do too much texting. The kids and I, we text. A lot? We do. That's how they communicate, so -- I got a letter from mother's day from Malia, a two-page letter. What did she say? I love you mom? I want to know. I gave you that little fact. That's something I haven't told anybody. What did it say?


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An American television show featuring street dance crews from the United States.
The show will keep the format, the dance teams competing for audience votes and the judges deciding which of the two lowest-scoring crews gets sent home. The winning crew takes home a $100,000 prize and joins past winners JabbaWockeeZ and SuperCr3w as title holders.
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Rain Tree Nutrition, Chuchuhuasi, 2 fl oz (60 ml) (Discontinued Item)
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Shipping Weight:?0.66 lbs (0.3 kg)
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The Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: RTN-00025
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- Package Quantity: 2 fl oz (60 ml)
- Dimensions: 1.3 x 1.3 x 3.5 in, 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
Product Overview
- Herbal Supplement
Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest have been using the bark of chuchuhuasi medicinally for centuries; its name means "trembling back" which describes its long history of use for back pain.* This rainforest tree goes by several botanical names including Maytenus krukovii, M. ebenifolia, M. laevis, M. chuchuhuasca and M. macrocarpa. Raintree Nutrition's Chuchuhuasi Concentrated Extract uses new and proprietary extraction methods to concentrate and preserve the active ingredients found in this amazing rainforest plant. It is rich in active and beneficial phytochemicals which occur naturally in this plant. The extraction methods used provides the equivalent of approximately 500 mgs of chuchuhuasi bark per milliliter of extract—resulting in a highly potent concentrated extract.
Suggested Use
Shake well. As a dietary supplement, take 60 drops (2 ml) 2-3 times daily or as needed.
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I wanted to have a simple Q&A feature on my wordpress
Example: having a TAB saying Q&A and once clicking on it
then it will display the current questions, categories
and whether the user want to ask a question etc.
WP-Answers << when instilling this ... it completely takes over ur theme.
Meaning that, it applies it's own theme etc.
Unless, u actually install a new WP on a different /root/
then apply the WP-Answers onto it ... however, then the user is required to be registered twice - once for main site and one for the questions <<< this is a bit annoying.
Anyone has got a good solution to a Q&A script/plugin?


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10 very good reasons to stop using JavaScript
JavaScript MVC frameworks are booming, but this post may change your mind about them. Before I explain to you the ten very good reasons to stop using JavaScript, I will first list a few popular JavaScript MVC frameworks:
- We start with one of the most well known frameworks, Backbone.js. With Backbone, your data is represented in Models.
- Second is Ember.js. Whilst Backbone is fairly low level, with a lot of code that you need to write yourself, such as code to update the view when model data changes, Ember does a lot of that work for you.
- Next up is Google's offering, the relatively new Angular.js. Angular takes a slightly different approach by doing data binding directly in your HTML.
- Knockout.js is an MVVM (Model-View-View Model) framework written in pure JavaScript. MVVM frameworks are split into three parts.
- Finally, I wanted to pick something different to all of the above and went with Batman.js, and not only because of the name.
Source: JavaScript MVC framework top 5
Now brace for the 10 very good reasons to stop using JavaScript:
1. JavaScript hurts your mobile visitors
You may want to read Who Is Murdering PhoneGap? It's jQuery Mobile as a reference.
2. JavaScript hurts your robustness
Oops. Firefox 18 broke my JavaScript-heavy website when no other version of FF did. This proves the point, right?
3. JavaScript hurts your security (and your privacy)
XSS and XSRF are the acronyms most web developers do not understand. Let's keep it that way, because hackers and security consultants are making good money on them. No kidding, I think that knowledge about these subjects is much more important than your client-side script-fu. So if you are using JavaScript, but have no idea how to avoid these attacks, then please, for the sake of the web, stop using JavaScript (and start reading some security books). AJAX based content loading and form submission are often vulnerable to these kind of attacks. Also automated security tools often fail at detecting these issues, since they rely on HTML parsing, which is not possible when using AJAX.
Sure, you knew all about that, since you are very security aware. This video explaining XXXSS attacks is so awesome, that after seeing it you may be tempted to start using NoScript: a Firefox plugin that blocks all scripts on non-trusted sites.
4. JavaScript hurts your SEO
AJAX can make a site difficult for search engines to index if the technology is not implemented carefully. There are two main search engine issues around AJAX: making sure that search engine bots can see your content, and making sure they can see and follow your navigation.
This is not my opinion. I'm quoting Google's advice on applying AJAX:
… view it in a text-only browser such as Lynx. Viewing a site as text-only can also help you identify other content which may be hard for Googlebot to see …
Try a text-only browser like "lynx" or "elinks" and you will be shocked by what Google will see!
5. JavaScript hurts your development time
6. JavaScript hurts your testing costs
The "Selenium Grid" approach is good but costly. It is well described in "Headless Functional Testing with Selenium and PhantomJS".
7. JavaScript hurts your website performance
Lots of people are using AJAX to load multiple parts of their website in separate requests. Where you normally have one request for the HTML, the web server now handles multiple requests for HTML from the browser. That way the web browser is tricked into thinking that the website is loaded after the first request of HTML. This allows the visitor to look at something (which according to some UX guru's is important), but it will slow down the actual loading of the website. It is even worse if you consider that this behavior will put a higher strain on your web server, resulting in slower serving of the page during peak hours (when it matters most).
Also interesting to read is that JavaScript may slow down your website due to poor JavaScript performance.
8. JavaScript hurts your software investment
Client-side technology is doomed to fail. We have seen Java applets fail. Then we've seen Flash fail (under suspicious circumstances). If history repeats itself (and it mostly does), JavaScript will fail as well, since it is the third in it's kind. When exactly is still unsure, but investing a lot of money in a codebase built on such an uncertain platform seems like a huge risk to me.
9. JavaScript hurts your software architecture
The reason the above MVC frameworks are on the rise is easy, there is no good way to write substantial software in JavaScript. The lack of any traditional OOP structures drives programmers mad. MooTools tries to fill that gap by providing just that. A good try, but it is still a hack that is lacking a lot of core OOP principles. These things frustrate professional and experienced programmers, since they are simply not used to write in functional languages. How many programmers that have a professional education actually know how to do functional programming? And how many are good at it?
JavaScript is sexy describes very thoroughly, how to apply the OOP paradigm in a classless (prototype-based) scripting language.
10. JavaScript is not needed
Yes, you can create websites and applications without JavaScript. Everything that is possible in JavaScript can be done on the server side. But this is not how we roll, right? We need "new" and "cool" technology don't we? Otherwise we (web developers) would be bored. But I ask you, can you look your boss straight in the eyes arguing that you "need JavaScript"? Is there a valid business case? Does this technology really pay off?
A lot of web development is done on applications that consist of lists, forms and buttons (administrative applications). Those applications definitely do not need JavaScript. People creating games or other real-time experiences, may consider themselves lucky, they are excepted.
Great! Not convinced? And you think I am a JavaScript hater? Well, I am not. I am the author of the extensive MinJS.org JavaScript MVC web framework.
NB: Thanks to Niko Schmuck I found an excellent post that explains in a much more subtle ways why progressive enhancement is important, read it! Please also read this excellent article from Chris Taylor on AngularJS and why not to use it.
80 Responses to "10 very good reasons to stop using JavaScript"
sorry to say, the worst leaseweb lab blog i've seen to date.
starting with point 10. you can't do everything serverside what javascript does. case in point something as simple as mouseover events.
but also somethings like getting the user ip adres.
futher more, this artikel is mostly based on frameworks. i personaly stay far away from frameworks. as this artikal mentions they have a huge overhead and hurt performance. just create you're own javascript code as needed and don't rely on a library of books where you only need 1 from.
Thank you for this post. How about this statement: The amount of jQuery used in business websites is often directly proportial to the programmers lack of CSS knowledge (transitions, browser support, graceful degredation, media queries, etc.).
"Client-side technology is doomed to fail". Really?
Applets and Flash have failed largely because both technologies require (buggy) plug-ins, and most functionality provided by each technology can now be implemented using standards-compliant JS/CSS. Notice the 'JS'. Take that away, and you'll actually go *back* to the situation where Flash/Java could provide stuff that the browser couldn't, natively.
So your argumentation on that point, IMO, is faulty.
Regarding #3: any non-well-implemented server side technology (PHP, anyone?) can hurt your security, too.
Regarding #5: this is mostly an issue for non-experienced developers. I can't for the likes of me remember spending much time getting JS code working properly cross-browser.
Regarding #7: you're describing a faulty client side setup as argument for why JS as a whole would make your website slow. Given a complex webpage where data can be loaded on-demand (for instance, only when a user selects a certain item will the data for the item be loaded), client side technology will actually speed up your website, since on-demand loading using AJAX (or similar technology) sure is a lot faster than an entire page reload (including resources).
Regarding #9: OOP isn't The Holy Grail. And your claim that "there is no good way to write substantial software in JavaScript" suggests to me that you're just lacking experience. I'm having a great time developing complex, substantial webapplications using JS (both client side and server side), and development is much faster than what I used to develop with (Python/Django).
Hay there…
When I reached the part, when you said.. all the things that javascript can do, could be done with server side programing language, I immediately understand that you are not developer at all (sorry for the sharpness), how you supposed to work with events from server side?
Also if no javascript, what else you suggesting to use? maybe pyton? or not use any client side language at all?
Well, you said users don't like to wait untill 1000 line will executed, I will say thet would not like when simple validation will take a page reload to say user that they typed existing username…
How you planning to have cool features in your website, such es sliders, popups, calendars, dropdown menus (multi level) and hunderd of other things…
About testing I will say shortly, if you have a little experience… the testing and bug finding/fixing is most primitive thing with javascript.
About security, I would say it's up to developer, not to language, so if you bad with it, you can left big security hole with php as well,
so if you going to not use javascript, you websiites will be gloomy and uninteresting.
@Maurits van der Schee : in CSS, you can't change the color of an element when an other element is clicked… And how make a textarea that is saving the user input without reload the page, without AJAX and JavaScript ? It's impossible just in HTML and CSS… If the JavaScript has been created, it's because it can be used !
Cool story, BRO.
I disagree with most of the points in this article, but #8 and #10 top them all.
An applications like, for instance, google maps is a very clear example of why dynamic HTML and client side event processing are necessary. This cannot be replaced with server-side functionality and deliver the same ease of use and smoothness. At least, not in a browser-based online application over a HTTP like protocol.
I am not saying javascript is the only language that could have delivered that. It just happened to be the language that got widely implemented that has all the features to make that possible.
Most of the other points are not points against javascript, but against bad design in general.
I agree with most points made in this post, and think many of the negative response were probably made by "Javascript developers" ("If we don't develop the site using Javascript, what will the Javascript developers do?"). I have worked with most of the MVC frameworks mentioned, at the behest of clients, and have run into the same list of problems. When clients ask me to use one of these frameworks, I begin with the caveat: "We have used this framework, and are able to do what you're asking. You're going to have the following problems… " I begin to explain all the problems listed in this post. The customer typically insists that we use the framework they've decided "everyone is using", and we go on to make a product that works well for the most part (it often looks and feels great), but that takes a long time to develop and has footprint and performance issues related to the use of large Javascript libraries.
I use Javascript all the time, along with my co-workers. I like a lot of things done in Javascript. I am a big fan of JQuery. I just think that the author has made some good points.
Your post should instead have the title, "10 reasons to stop using JavaScript." They are reasons, but they are not very good.
Ah, didn't know that. I'll rewrite my node.js app using server-side technology.
For those who wonder whether the post is spot on, try writing an IDE on the Web. Let's start with having a text editor. , anyone?
I'm sure Google Docs would benefit from converting all its JS. And Gmail for mobile, which loads parts of the app in JS as users activate them — for performance / memory reasons.
No, it's not just games.
So what sites should stop using Javascript?
These are mostly valid, well though out points, but they are presented pretty sensationally. I agree that a static, simple marketing site should probably not be written as an Angular app, for example. But I think the vast majority of sites and apps currently using these Javascript MVC frameworks are using them for very valid reasons. It just took me to the last sentence of point #10 to realize that I didn't need to read this article.
Let me just start by saying I truly agree with you. But you are saying the same as "Cars are bad for the environment, so STOP using cars!". That is also a true statement but are cars the only reason the environment is hurt? And what is the alternative? Bikes? Boats?
Let's rephrase your title, instead of saying "stop using javascript" let's say: "use javascript properly!".
1) JavaScript hurts your mobile visitors
Indeed, having too much scripts on a page kills browser performance and indeed that applies more to mobile users because they simply have less computing power.
But loading additional content asynchronously allows a mobile user to get to the content they want more quickly because, for example, the rest of the lay-out of the page doesn't have to be reloaded and the response can be returned as a simple JSON object. This makes the experience much nicer! Now you say that loading content using JS kills SEO, i'll come to that later. Of course things like animations or hover effects should be done using CSS. Computing the total price after you increase the number of items in your shopping cart, retrieving quick search results and auto completers and other things are examples of great improvements using JavaScript.
So to conclude, too much of anything is always bad. When used properly mobile users can really benefit from some enhancements using JS.
2) JavaScript hurts your robustness
Again properly coding the enhancements makes sure not your entire page breaks when an error occurs.
3) JavaScript hurts your security (and your privacy)
Again you're saying that one technology is a cause of something else. XSS (Cross-site scripting) can be applied to websites with NO javascript at all, all you need is a form and a site that display's everything you type without any escaping or filtering. This has nothing to do with JS at all but should be solved by properly escaping or filtering the visitor generated content and this is done server-side.
4. JavaScript hurts your SEO
Yet another example of you cutting corners. When used properly (see #1) loading content asynchronously greatly improves the experience of the user. For example you can load additional data when a user clicks a link. That link should be a REAL "a" element that links to a REAL page. With a simple check the server could see that the user supports JS (for example a parameter could be added dynamically to the href of the link like: href="searchresults.php?page=2&ajax=true") and then the server could return the next 10 results in the search result list without the extra lay-out etc.
When a search engine sees the link it simply sees: href="searchresults.php?page=2″ and visits the REAL page with a proper lay-out. This also makes sure that the link can be opened in a new tab so benefits everywhere.
When a site is _dependent_ on JS, this hurts SEO but when used properly search engines will have a field day visiting your site.
5) JavaScript hurts your development time
If you're code base is so complex then the problem is the person that created it. A decent programmer makes sure his code is properly testable and setup in such a way that errors can be easily debugged no matter what browser it runs in. This argument also says: don't use PHP, or ASP or Java or whatever programming language is out there because if you don't know how, debugging is hard.
6) JavaScript hurts your testing costs
See #5
7) JavaScript hurts your website performance
To much of anything is always a bad thing. Especially on mobile devices requests are costly. It takes more time to make the request than to actually download the content so multiple ajax calls to build a page are bad. But loading additional content on-demand can greatly improve the usability of a website.
8) JavaScript hurts your software investment
You're comparing plug-in based technologies to a technology that is built-in in EVERY browser. These plug-ins fail because they are simply NOT accessible. JS is a complementary technology, it works on top of HTML (using the DOM) and therefore degrades gracefully to native behaviours. Please don't compare apples and oranges.
9) JavaScript hurts your software architecture
Again with the comparing apples with oranges! For example PHP is not strict typed and Java is, therefore PHP is bad.. NO! It's simply different! JavaScript is a different kind of programming language so implementing structures can be a little different but this doesn't mean it's a bad language?
10) JavaScript is not needed
You say:
"Everything that is possible in JavaScript can be done on the server side." – No it can't, you can't have direct interaction with your visitors.
"We need "new" and "cool" technology don't we? Otherwise we (web developers) would be bored." – And what kind of argument is that? Never use 'new' technologies because.. it's bad? How does that help the web forward?
"But I ask you, can you look your boss straight in the eyes arguing that you "need JavaScript"?" – Can you sell to your clients that your entire page has to reload to simply show or hide a simple form element?
"Is there a valid business case? Does this technology really pay off?" – I just gave you several examples how a client-side programming language can improve user experience, so YES.
"Administrative applications definitely do not need JavaScript" – I can think of so many features a simple administrative application could have that would really improve them that I don't know where to start. How about a simple + button that adds another row when inserting rows in a database. Or a check if a value matches a specific pattern or an autocompleter to select an employee from a list of thousands of employees. Are you really telling me that these are all doable server-side? Then I pity your clients.
So I'm not convinced and I don't think anyone is. You're probably no JS hater but you really have chosen the wrong words to make your point. Your point which shouldn't haven been to stop using JS but instead that too many websites implement JS the wrong way.
Guess JS also caused my comment not to be escaped properly? /sarcasm
I applaud Maurits for expressing a healthy list of practical reasons why JavaScript is problematic. Also, I agree with him that the short term solution is to use as little programmer-written JavaScript as possible. But, meanwhile, I am still waiting for someone to offer a replacement for JavaScript that I could use with a clear conscience.
Best Regards,
I suspect this whole post is some sort of trolling experiment, but just in case you're actually serious, I have to assume you don't have much experience working on high-volume, enterprise-sized web sites. Moving application features to the client-side can vastly improve the cachability of a complex and busy web page. Delivering the same JavaSript + CSS + HTML to every user, and rendering personalisation features purely on the client's machine, for one example, can massively improve the actual and perceived speed of the site for the user: the fastest page delivery is the one that doesn't have to requested because it's already in the user's cache. This would not be possible if your server had to crank out a whole new unique page for each and every page hit. State can be preserved in localstorage, and uncachable bits can be lazy-loaded with AJAX only when needed. You might have a point in specific cases (small, low traffic site, with a inexperienced developers — I note this page includes both jQuery and 2 additional JavaScript libraries) but your sweeping generalisations are just not true in many cases. And pointing out the fact that you are wrong is not the same as saying you are a "JavaScript hater."
"We need "new" and "cool" technology don't we?"
No we don't. We need a technology that fits a purpose, everything else is prattle. JavaScript doesn't suit you because of this and that ? Ok, fine, don't use it. But you can't throw to the ground what other have done simply because you don't like the way they did.
Ok, JavaScript has flaws, just like any other technology. If you think everything would be better just by deporting everything to the server side, think again.
A whole load of nothing in this article. The majority of the points are either downright wrong ("JavaScript hurts your development time") or are specific to CLIENT SIDE CODING – not JavaScript.
the examples are mostly edge cases where one thing didn't work once (like string.contains not being in FF18 – this could have easily been avoided with polyfills that check for functionality). This type of thing can happen in other languages as well, from what I'm getting is this is really about the environment and not the language.
This #$%$# site runs JavaScript……..
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Very good troll to promote your own framework.
I am just curios are you are a programmer?
Here you go I am contributing to you list.
12. JavaScript is bad for the environment. (11 is already contributed)
Web Developers use JS to create web applications and guess what them get paid for that.They spend the money to put petrol into their car which pollutes the environment => Javascirpt is bad.
Reasons to stop using computers: paper is cheap, paper always "just works", paper is mobile, paper is secure (you know where it is)
Reasons to stop using paper: stone tablets are robust (they last literally ages)
… and so on
This is only true if you are using JS wrong.
As a person who does JavaScript professionally every day, and whose specialty and focus is JavaScript – I could not agree with you more. I do think you should change the title to "client side JavaScript" though 😉
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This has—HAS—to be a giant troll attempt. There's no way the author could be so stupid as to advocate for not having any sort of (preliminary) client-side validation, or not having any sort of ajax to load only updated fields, rather than re-posting the entire page.
This seems like a 3-month-too-late April Fools attempt.
this sentence "Everything that is possible in JavaScript can be done on the server side" is just a plain lie. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you should learn more about Javascript before going on risky accusations.
First of all thanks for the game development exception, so glad I'm not wasting my time with JavaScript. Js is there to get some client-side magic done, so substituting that with server-side php sounds a little unconvincing, as many previous comments point out. That said I agree 100% with you, Js should not be. To make a website you have to know html, css, ajax, JavaScript and whatnot to get the client-side done. Why not have everything of the above in a single, one comprehensive easy to use object oriented programming language? We should have that. Then again we should have world peace too, right
Oh My.
I have been working with the "enterprise" .net for 20 years. Javascript does have its faults of course, but using a decent front end framework, a decent server and a decent database, that all use the same language and data format , all speaking similar Javascript / JSON is a real revelation.
When you add the JS PaaS services and all the open source build deployment environments : well its a no brainer.
I would encourage the author, to take one of the applications he runs, or supports, to rewrite it in a Java script way – maybe Angular / node and mongo, don't really are, and then report.
This is utter bullocks, and if it encourages people to keep the status quo its bad.
Ahhh uuuu eeehheehehe hummmm, what can I say? I don't agree with you man, sorry. Javascript is not useless, it's like the loosen strain since IE 6 that held HTTP stateless troublesome alive. We learnt a lot, JS helped us, saved a few of us lives and I guess meanwhile you must've been writing COBOL or Fortran80 applications for the masses. Oh well, lets keep it like that, try and sell your mainframe icebergs and we keep chasing our fool mistakes continuously deploying web applications in the form of small pills. Hope to see you in heaven Bro.
Only thing from this article that I accept is: JS performance is slow on some desktop browsers (IE).
This is really big problem. Because unlike mobile application user expects full featured and fast application.
About other things: I think that author is confused between 1) web-application and 2) web-site.
Web-site without JS is OK, and I think nobody argues. But web-application without JS is very bad in various aspects (as developing, as user friendliness).
If you can't spend the time and money making sure that your website works the way you want it to, and decide to trust outside vendors to develop your site's functionality, I'm going to assume you don't have a clue about how to make the transactions between them secure. No, I don't care how professional your partners are, or how carefully you've vetted them. I can't see that. There's no way to convince me you have. And I don't give two shits that it saves you bandwidth – if I can't see clearly where my credit card data is being handled, it's the equivalent to participating in an orgy. Sure, you might walk away without an STD, or your life may be ruined.
Leaseweblabs, I applaud you for handling your own scripts. I enabled them knowing who to blame should this comment somehow be used to rob me blind 😉
I have to disagree with you, for example javascript can be used for web acceleration, and the newer versions of google bots can read js now. Html pages are rendered in serial, but you can speedup that process with a javascript template system in the api (example: mustache)
Although I agree some of the points, this article sucks. It is like "Stop using Internet cuz the Internet is not safe enough". Or maybe the title is not right. It has to be "Reasons to use Javascripts properly" instead.
Imagine how vulnerable it would be if you could use other programming languages like Lua, C++, PHP, C#, Go etc instead of Javascripts.
This is extremely backwards.
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Uh, for all you "developers" who are defending JS, keep in mind that most, if not all, of the author's points are correct. As both a developer and an user, I have all but stopped using the most popular sites (e.g., google) preciecely because of thier UNNECESSSARY insistance on using JS.
Yes, there are things that can only be accomplished via JS, but those things should be the USER's choice, not yours. If you can't build a functioning website without JS, then don't try to sell me that you actually know what you're doing.
I cannot believe that I am read this. If I tell in my company that we are going to do everything server side, I will get a kick in the bum so hard I will land in the moon. Learn JS and stop moaning, you cannot go to the server for each trivial transition.
Dude. JavaScript is bad. Very bad. But I'm pretty sure you have no idea what you're talking about. Doing everything JS does in CSS? Yea? Have you ever programmed a single line of code? Like seriously, what's the point of your posting? What are you going to use instead of JavaScript to do implement any algorithms?
Learn JavaScript and JQuery. Wort post ever…period!
This blog/page/post proves that the web is full of crap. And it proves that job titles, whether or not they are self-granted, do not have to mean a thing. I've never seen such nonsense.
let's go back to using font tags
Cannot agree more with Frank.
An apology post to close this sad thread is recommended.
I would also fire the blogger, no matter the title.
hahahahahaha. funny!
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All of this is pure non-sense and you know it.
This article seems to make the assumption that you will do everything in JS, or everything in CSS, or everything on server side. A good user experience will involved a smooth flow of all three. Some (not 1000 lines+) of JS, some CSS for styling, some server side support for heavy processing/db work. Loading you entire app into JS is stupid, but ignoring the features it provides is equally so. So you have 20 to 30 lines of JS code… so what… As long as the app functions equally well without the JS code, then when someone turns off their JS, they lose some slickness and a few bells and whistles. Their choice.
This is an excellent blog post. As a user, I'm sick of having client-side scripts crammed down my throat. As a webmaster, I know that Javascript is not necessary and often counterproductive. As an IT professional, I know that the whole concept of client-side scripting is dangerous and doomed to fail. It's long past time that people just started saying "no" to scripts. Internet will never be safe as long as users have to let every web site they may happen to use run whatever code the webmaster thinks is necessary on the user's computer. It's just a matter of web developers improving their HTML skills instead of relying of a concept that already is a proven failure.
Andrew.. you nailed it! Excellent comment..
This is quite possibly the dumbest post I've ever read. It is 2014, almost 2015, the server is dead and the client reigns supreme. Any developer who's current knows this. It appears the author has been living under a rock and still builds websites using the same technologies we used in the 90s.
Why is it every fscking website requires Google scripting? – FSCK OFF.
I would rather cancel my ISP connection than allow Google to run scripts on my machine – FSCK OFF
Oh, And I am serious, why the fsck would I want to allow the OMNIPOTENT GOOGLE any access to my machine? – FSCK OFF
Google.com / Google.co.uk / Googelapis.com / gstatic.com / google-analytics.com / googleadservices.com / googletagmanager.com – FSCK OFF
I like how everyone is claiming you're not a developer just because you don't like JavaScript. Awfully inflammatory and juvenile in my opinion.
I agree with most of the points you made. Personally, I feel like JavaScript is heavily overused on the Internet. Most websites have no real use for it. Kind of like the flash days o' old with "buffering" or "loading" bars on the website. If your website contains static content, it doesn't need to be that heavy. Pretty shine is nice, but there's a line between tasteful shine and a "Boyd's toast" style websites (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell).
Putting a technology in production (testing is a whole other matter) just because it's cool is not often wise, scalable, supportable, cost effective, or "future oriented" (see what I did with that buzzword there?). Take a look at NoSQL for instance. It has its application, but it's not nearly as broad as people originally used it for its early fad days. As time passed, people realized there are uses for NoSQL databases, and there is are uses for relational databases, and those are often not the same. I think JavaScript is similar. It's useful, it just shouldn't be used nearly as much. I think much of the time it's a sledgehammer for a thumbtack kind of situation.
This site, a WordPress blog, is using jQuery. The click trackers for the ads on this site us JS. Akismet, which you use for spam, uses JS. You're a PHP fanatic running a PHP-based CMS, and you've written a post on a page that loads 7 separate scripts (and one inline) complaining about JS.
But that's none of my business.
Nice clickbait, btw.
Heroic action Kermit. I'm sure it must takes quite some guts to anonymously dismiss an article as clickbait without any arguments.
IMHO the rage in the comments prove that teh author has made a good point. It is fueled by discomfort, because the arguments make sense.
I enjoyed the article. Ignore the negativity and please keep writing!
This page itself load 100k + of JS…. Just saying…
#1. 10,000 lines of JavaScript is ~60K, and not all lines are created equal. Perhaps the author's understanding of JS algorithms and design patterns is incomplete. Angular 1.x excluded – they stink at memory management and performance in general.
#2. "A single bug in your JavaScript can break the functionality of your entire website. Especially when you are relying on one of the above MVC frameworks." Well-authored MV libraries (not frameworks, technically) are thoroughly tested and minimize these kinds of errors. But, to your point, a single bug in ANY piece of code can break a website. Next.
#3. Blaming JS noobs' security mistakes on JS itself is bad form.
#4. Granted, but easily fixed. There are a zillion drop-in search engine fixes for client-side content loading for every server-side language imaginable.
#6. "JS can only be tested using a browser" FALSE. This is so false. There are plenty of node specrunners. But to the greater point: imagine that – actually testing something in the environment that it is intended to run in, on the OSs it supports? Even if your wildest dreams come true and all JS disappears, you still need to test your html and css across browsers and OSs.
#7. Well-authored JavaScript in coordination with smart APIs and architecture vastly improve performance and UX. Poorly-written JS and/or terrible architecture vastly degrade performance and UX. Just like every other application known to man.
#9. "The lack of any traditional OOP structures…" again, an ignorant statement. There is not a lack of OOP structures, there is simply a subset of them, to go along with the numerous functional programming design patterns that are available to the developer. In short: there is no shortage of design patterns in JS. I find it interesting that the author chose to name Backbone, and completely ignore Backbone's reliance on OOP structures.
#10. 1999 called, they want their web development philosophy back. I mean, we're supposed to take this seriously: "Everything that is possible in JavaScript can be done on the server side."
You forgot one thing. Even with serve-side, like nodejs, JS is unsecure by default. =)
with node.js everything in client and server side done with well, i think should write article 100 reason do not stop using javascript
Agree. A huge one you forgot: no versioning.
I need you to write me a single page application to manage my human resources department without resorting to page refreshes. I will pay you 1,000,000 dollars so long as you don't resort to any JavaScript.
Really mate. Nothing personal, but this post is total bullshit. Are you living in the past?
@jaime: I think we are building single page applications for decades. We used to call them Java applets or Flash games. They did not rely on page refreshes either. Macromedia (later Adobe) was trying to get Flash to the corporate level with the Flex Builder and their mxml form language. Until Apple killed them… so sad.
So? What technology we should use in client side ? What about modern web ?
Thanks Maurits, for a very insightful article!
To my surprise, there are some people who are finally waking up to this idea – but there is still an ever-growing army of lemmings who bristle at any suggestion that the javascript "Web 2.0 richness" has any flaws and that the only pie in the sky at the end of this rainbow is a plate of disgusting, cold spaghetti that some coder couldn't keep down…. but I digress.
I started coding HTML sites before javascript was born and remember how fast the internet used to be – even on weak hardware, by modern standards …
And don't get me started on Flash – more lemming madness, running off the cliff into the darkness of an SEO black hole. Being a musician, I am always amazed when I query a famous name and, instead of finding the 'official' web site, it is usually down the page, hidden behind a curtain of Flash, ready to blast music at you after it loads, even though your baby is sleeping in the same room .
Oh but, wait, the madness gets worse still: apps
On a web site, at least the user can view source, if only to reach for the barf-bag when they see what is actually under the hood.
But now, the latest trend is away from even presenting the user any option of clicking away from a web site: just get them to install a 'cool' app that only serves up what you want them to see: AHA – CAPTURE, KA-CHING!
Until the party ends.
I could physically feel my IQ plummet just by reading this article…
I am pretty shure this article was written by an amateur
Regardless of the pros and cons of using JS, for me JS is necessary if you want a browser to feel like it is a rich application.
Somewhere along the line the browser won through as how to deploy applications. If we wish to have rich applications runable without installing anything locally this currently means using a browser and the only way to achieve that without plugins is JS.
Why browsers remain the first choice might be a bit outdated. Corporate IT policy that forbids installing software and the costs of re-deploying updates to that software were probably prime reasons why the browser offered a great cost saving, but with applications now able to self update from a single source (Chrome, tablet Apps etc) deployment and install over the web seems a better direction for really good applications rather than browser apps that either provide a poor lowest common denominator or expose themselves to security issues whilst trying to achieve richness.
Many if the points given are broadly true – we just refuse to accept that the road we are travelling down (must use browser) is not the best option if you want the best user experience. Non-browser and web services would provide a much better experience at the cost of needing to install it to use it.
stupid writer… javascipt is the best language for best web
I truely like javascript when it's well-written.
Since some years ago, I try not to use jQuery or Bootstrap actions when developing, and I focus more on vanilla JS, and if browser compatibility becomes an issue, I simply switch to a server-side solution. I mostly use jQuery for powerful AJAX requests, and "foreach" loops. So I really make a compromise between JS and no-JS.
BUT, try to recreate a fast and powerful "Google Maps"-like application without any line of JS, and I'll give you some reward.
I can't think of a better way to create a lightbox image gallery than with JavaScript. I'm not sure if this post was meant to be satirical but I'd like to think it at least partially is.
I personally have not used any frameworks as of yet, though I plan to learn one soon. I would need to if I want to get hired anywhere. The only thing I've used as far as libraries and frame works is jQuery and it's just totally necessary to me to keep things simple, rather than rewriting a headache.
@author, @Greg, but exactly. How fast the Internet used to be.
And taken oneself as the user – whatever takes longer than a super-short load – I leave the page with no return.
JS? Turned off (no-script etc.) .. and it's _that_ quick, again. Besides; security, of course. Being programmer myself; I don't trust anyone producing a program. _and a JS_ is executed _on my machine_ .. oh; no. Really, not. My machine is mine; only.
"changing a color" lovely, kindergarten hm. an argument, indeed, .. however, I favor speed. And security. JS will be off. – CHECK THE STATs folks. 10% of users are using no-script and therelike .. without JS, it was and is possible. "changing a color" .. "the feeling of rich apps" .. lovely. good luck folks
and thanks the author.
You can't make chrome extensions without javascript, css and HTML are not enough.
why you are using javascript on your site is a big question.


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Who Gets The Bond Film Rights Next?
With Sky losing the rights to show the bond films at the end of this month does anyone know which channel gets them next? All the films except Skyfall are showing an expiry date of 30th September 2013 on the On Demand service and I seem to remember that the deal was for one year. So where will they go next? Surely not back to ITV? Could BBC get them at last? Or could Sky renew the deal at the last minute. Anyone know?
I imagine ITV will likely regain terrestrial rights, I imagine it would be too expensive for The BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 to obtain. Bond has been shown on ITV since they have started showing them as terrestrial premieres aside from Her Majesty's Secret Service which I believe the BBC showed as a one-off.
In fact every bond film premiered on itv including OHMSS which premiered in September 1978. As far as I remember bbc1 have shown the unofficial film never say never again but that too premiered originally on itv. They did have a one off screening of from Russia with love on bbc2 about four years ago as part of some season.
If they do go back on itv I can see them making a big deal of it. Bond is back where he belongs or something like that!
ITV will be sharpening their scissors so they can get back to hacking the Bond films to bits as usual.
BBC2 have shown the original Casino Royale (the David Niven, non-EON Productions one) several times.
I expect itv will get them back but it would be nice for them to be on bbc for a change, no adverts!
Happy for them to go back to ITV. I don't particularly like the channel, but they seem to belong there and it's how I discovered the films when I was young.
And, considering the age of some of these films, they put them in good slots.
Btw, it's actually quite a novelty to see these films on DVD or BD and see bits you haven't seen, because you grew up with VHS recordings of ITV showings. Hack away, ITV!
Seems daft for Sky to make a big thing of it then lose them. Surely they will want them for when the next film comes out as well.
I could tolerate them being on ITV again only if the new deal means they get OAR versions of the films and they stop cutting them. Like either of those two will ever happen though!
If BBC got the rights you would never see them again BBC hardly ever show movies they just like having the rights and never showing them. OK they might show them once but there will be years between showings.
I remember watching Twins on BBC One years ago (around 2005/2006) for the first time but that is now on ITV.
I doubt Sky will want to re-new the contract the novelty has worn off for them. They won't want them any more.
Sky will continue with the PayTV rights for Bond but it does not make sense financially for MGM to sell the rights exclusively to one provider when they can make more money selling them individually. I have no doubt that ITV will show Skyfall once they get the rights back.
Think Bond is one of the few franchises which are sold separately from other film output deals, Star Wars, Potter and Indiana Jones are the others. I wonder if Disney will sell Marvel and the upcoming Star Wars films separate from their other films or bundle them together.
*They have everything DreamWorks have the rights for, but a lot of DW's catalogue are co-productions for which somebody else has the rights
A lot of that does get some airing, and even Channel 4 who have a massive library (Fox, Paramount, Studiocanal, Relativity Media, Momentum, Film4, Entertainment One, MGM and selected films from Sony Pictures, Disney and EFD) repeat themselves.
It has been refreshing to see the films unspoilt on Sky however there is nothing like a wet bank holiday Monday with Bond being on ITV
Anyone but ITV or Channel 5.The BBC could do a season on BBC2 or BBC4 with the older ones and put the newer ones on BBC1 or 3 and they seem to be showing a lot of films in OAR lately.
Or a season on Film 4 would be good too
ITV always cropped them from the original aspect ratio to fill a widescreen TV by removing the black borders, essentially chopping out a sizeable chunk of the image on the left and right in the process. Sky on the other hand have been showing them as they were meant to be shown.
Never say Never Again
EON now own all the rights to every Bond film, including NSNA and the Original Casino Royale so they control everything Bond.
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