I'll sue you if you use my common-sense JavaScript tests
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I'll sue you if you use my common-sense JavaScript tests
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#3I actually had to go and google the person in question. After about five or so newsgroup messages from him badmouthing other people I gave up.
Still no idea who he is.
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#4Some other gems by David Mark http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_f... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_t...
Wow! After reading these, and the replies, I definitely agree with John Resig about that newsgroup: don't read. Or risk losing your hope for humanity.
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#5Some other gems by David Mark http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_f... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_t...
Wow! After reading these, and the replies, I definitely agree with John Resig about that newsgroup: don't read. Or risk losing your hope for humanity.
It's sad that one person can destroy an entire community. But one can.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow! After reading these, and the replies, I definitely agree with John Resig about that newsgroup: don't read. Or risk losing your hope for humanity.
It's sad that one person can destroy an entire community. But one can.
According to his LinkedIn, David Mark is now working at Sitepen, the primary contributors to Dojo. I guess he no longer believes that all JavaScript frameworks are completely idiotic...
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#8Seems like this David Mark is mad at the world: http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/promising_javascript_fram... http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/promising_javascript_fram... http://stackoverflow.com/users/88658/david-mark http://help.wugnet.com/bravenet/webmaster/Great-Examples-cod...
Thanks for digging these up. His tone and his arguments are two different things; I find his tone hard to take, but can any JS coders weigh in on his arguments?
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#9Why is this even being posted to HN? Is it buzzword compliant or something?
Re: I'll sue you if you use my common-sense JavaScript tests
#10Seems like this David Mark is mad at the world: http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/promising_javascript_fram... http://sixrevisions.com/javascript/promising_javascript_fram... http://stackoverflow.com/users/88658/david-mark http://help.wugnet.com/bravenet/webmaster/Great-Examples-cod...
Thanks for digging these up. His tone and his arguments are two different things; I find his tone hard to take, but can any JS coders weigh in on his arguments?
His arguments are nonsensical. Are there bugs in jQuery? To be sure. But he has absolutely no clue what real developers are looking for in a library. Many of the complaints in his critiques center around the fact that jQuery does things which will break browsers like Netscape 4 and IE 5. Not only does jQuery not claim to support those browsers, there are literally no web developers using jQuery who care about support for those browsers.