H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Oct 6, 2017 07:25 PM UTC:
Well, when they could not possibly be less receptive, there is nothing to lose. At least it succeeded in attracting your attention.
JavaScript is nothing but a C-like programming language that is loaded from a website and executed by the web browser, and that can generate or alter the HTML on the page it comes with in any way it wants, spontaneously or in response to mouse clicks or key strokes. That is really all you have to know about it, if you don't want to write a program yourself.
This is not a discussion about technical issues anyway. It is about whether the site performs as it should for the majority of non-technical users, and whether we have a policy that sufficiently respects the work of contributors that do not happen to be editor or site maintainer.
Well, when they could not possibly be less receptive, there is nothing to lose. At least it succeeded in attracting your attention.
JavaScript is nothing but a C-like programming language that is loaded from a website and executed by the web browser, and that can generate or alter the HTML on the page it comes with in any way it wants, spontaneously or in response to mouse clicks or key strokes. That is really all you have to know about it, if you don't want to write a program yourself.
This is not a discussion about technical issues anyway. It is about whether the site performs as it should for the majority of non-technical users, and whether we have a policy that sufficiently respects the work of contributors that do not happen to be editor or site maintainer.