Comments on: Confessions of an Eccentric Web Developer

By: epsi

epsi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:56:29 +0000

Re: #17. Joomla still keeping the faith with mootools.
Mootools 1.2.3 included in Joomla 1.6 alpha.

It will push their user to learn mootools.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=502&t=273960

It is simpler for beginner not to switch from what is already included.
The case is unique here, since coder usually try moo first before search for other.

Dunno ’bout other CMS.
But some web-framework still decide not to be JS agnostic.

It will also push user to learn other for the same reason.

What do we need to keep moo alive beside faith?

Note: J1.6a has php class called JQuery to handle SQL. And it has nothing to do with JavaScript.

By: bogdan.s

bogdan.s — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:55:46 +0000

re #13: The best browser in my opinion, is the first opened when you start developing. Even if you made a simple HTML + CSS page, or an advanced js application.
Actually, IE is the last browser I’m using (just) for testing, but I’m not sure this is the best practice.

By: clum

clum — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:44:07 +0000

well I’m loving your confessions, but move on! some of us 30+ have been there done that.. and the the t-shirt has shrunk now

what you say now about JS about only using it to enhance, agreed but ermm that sounds a lot familiar about what has been said about CSS/JS for the last goodness knows how long.. and so your #9 is whacked and I’ll join in that one as I’m sure will many others unless it’s css-off then I’m not in as it’s failing miserably

By: Braxo

Braxo — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:36:01 +0000

I agree with you on 2, 4, 5, 7, and 9.

Re 2: I used Firefox all the time, didn’t even have Safari on my Dock. But with Apple’s new release of it (3.1) I have now switched to it 100%. I fell in love with the developer window.

By: httpwebwitch

httpwebwitch — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:06:19 +0000

I meant to type “like”, not “life”, as in “I like sifr”.
My typing skills are awful, I go too fast. That was one of my confessions…

By: httpwebwitch

httpwebwitch — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:03:56 +0000

dunno if you have pingbacks going on here. I did a response to your post over here:
http://www.ianring.com/blog/2008/05/confessions-of-a-web-developer/

I like reading your blog, I’ve been subscribed for a while now.
I don’t agree with some of the opinions in your confession, for instance, I life sifr, and I don’t agree with the futility of JavaScript; it’s so ubiquitous, no one really turns it off anymore except stodgy JavaScript developers. But what’s the point of disagreeing? it’s a confession, not a thesis.

By: Jeffrey Way

Jeffrey Way — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:23:08 +0000

“I visit my own blog all the time to look things up.”

Gosh..that is funny. I do the same thing.

And I completely agree with you about the sifr stuff. I briefly implemented that into my site. After a week, I just couldn’t stand it…it was removed!

By: keif

keif — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:22:09 +0000

RE: MooTools/JS:

Sadly, it’s always the nature of the beast, isn’t it? I’m with you on your thoughts abotu mooTools toxicity, and totally with you on JS being ENHANCEMENT, not core functionality.

I guess that’s the difference between a good developer and a great one – being that your site works with JS off (of course, it ALSO depends on your audience – do you care if the paranoid sysadmin can’t shop at your site because he doesn’t have JS on? :)

By: david

david — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:33 +0000

@All: I don’t lay in fear of someone not having javascript on. It’s just that you can’t build javascript into the core of your website sometimes. Javascript should be to enhance, not for core functionality.

By: david

david — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:41:36 +0000

@Richard: You got me. Let me add a number 18: I don’t proofread my articles well enough.