TopStyle - Download. CSS. Tools of the trade: the six best JavaScript toolkits. Posted on 11 Jan 2011 at 14:21 To celebrate 15 years in business and 15 years of JavaScript, Simon Brock rounds up some of the best toolkits for web development Regular readers will know that Ian Wrigley and I write this column on alternate months.
We used to work together, but Ian moved to the USA several years ago and we don’t meet very often nowadays. Ian was in the UK a couple of weeks ago so we met for a few drinks, and something that he told me then has resonated ever since and bizarrely influenced the way I look at things. Part of Ian’s job is training, and he said that he often tells his students about the web company we founded 15 years ago, and how it’s still going.
Javascript. Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next... I’ve long looked at JavaScript as a second-class citizen in the programming world.
Early on, it was the source of numerous security problems; it was a nice bit of glue to patch together HTML applications with a bit of styling, but nobody would use it for serious code; and so forth. Java, Ruby, Python, they were the languages for doing real work. But my attitude toward JavaScript has changed completely in the past few years. JavaScript has “grown up.”
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.