On 06/01/2021 18:29, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:09:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 06/01/2021 10:43, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:36:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/01/2021 22:23, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>> In both languages, context selects the appropriate method
>>>>
>>>> Until it doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> A day wasted debugging JavaScript to ascertain why IE was totally
>>>> different to Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> There was an implicit cast happening in IE which wasn't in Firefox
>>>> that turned a 1 into  a "1"..
>>>>
>>>> Context dependency just adds another layer of complexity and a source
>>>> of more bugs
>>>
>>> ... well, if you use crappy interpreted languages with untyped
>>> variables then you've chosen to accept that sort of thing as normal.
>>>
>> Sadly javaScript is all you get in a browser
>>
> Fair comment. So far when I've needed dynamic web pages, which isn't
> often, PHP has done everything I've needed.
>
>
Php is fine server side, but to get speed with a decent interactive page
you need JavaScript in  the browser, even if its just Ajax.


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