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JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

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Re: JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

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Those graphs should really start at 0, the improvements (as good as they are) are needlessly exaggerated.

I agree, but it is rarely the fault of the person presenting them. Unfortunately most "easy to use" graphing technologies (with Excel being the worst offender) take the most deceptive graphing techniques and make them defaults.

Re: JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

#7

Those graphs should really start at 0, the improvements (as good as they are) are needlessly exaggerated.

I agree, but it is rarely the fault of the person presenting them. Unfortunately most "easy to use" graphing technologies (with Excel being the worst offender) take the most deceptive graphing techniques and make them defaults.

> most deceptive graphing techniques

They are deceptive because they exaggerate features of the data in order to improve perception of configuration changes. If every graph started at zero, many datasets would look like flat lines... not a great user experience when graphing.

Re: JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

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Those graphs should really start at 0, the improvements (as good as they are) are needlessly exaggerated.

I agree, but it is rarely the fault of the person presenting them. Unfortunately most "easy to use" graphing technologies (with Excel being the worst offender) take the most deceptive graphing techniques and make them defaults.

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Re: JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

#9
We really need a monkey version of nodejs and node-webkit. Mozilla's engine looks more solid for universal use, there are more interesting features and experimentation. The only problem is that it's harder to embed in another software, but it looks that it is changing and I really hope it will change.

Re: JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013

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post #9

We really need a monkey version of nodejs and node-webkit. Mozilla's engine looks more solid for universal use, there are more interesting features and experimentation. The only problem is that it's harder to embed in another software, but it looks that it is changing and I really hope it will change.

> Mozilla's engine looks more solid for universal use > The only problem is that it's harder to embed in another software

Well , you cant have it both ways. There was spideymonkey-node a few years ago , but Mozilla doesnt seem interested in maintaining that. In fact there are quite a few mozilla abandonned projects,(XULRunner...) that could have competed with node-webkit.

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