Comments on: YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Part 5: The End of All Things” (94 min.)

By: Jared Forsyth

Jared Forsyth — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:01:49 +0000

Wait seriously? Is he still in 1999, or do people actually do `window[name] = blah`???

I dearly hope not…

By: steve

steve — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:12:29 +0000

Very interesting talk, thank you

By: JP

JP — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:53:02 +0000

I guess I would enjoy watching Crockford even more if he would stop abusing language all the time.

In a previous installment, he states that every type in JavaScript is an object. In this installment, he states that everything is passed by reference. Both of these statements are at best misleading and at worst false (at least if we’re talking in terms of the language itself, and not an implementation). Any standard reference on the language explains this (including his own book, on the first point). And his own examples illustrate this.

Why bother with technical language if you’re just going to crap on it?

By: Jeffrey Gilbert

Jeffrey Gilbert — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:37:57 +0000

He referenced it in an earlier talk as a bad example of inheritance, but i don’t think he was specifically taking aim at the selector syntax which is quite good for getting around on the dom. but he hates the dom too so that’s likely why since one begets the other.

By: sake

sake — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:13:52 +0000

CSS is definitely bad. There are too many resource in this topics on the internet. We need no more proof.

(I’ve read Michael Bowers’s book. I’m not a CSS naive)

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:55:50 +0000

I still don’t get why Crockford is anti-CSS. The closest thing to an argument against it that I’ve heard from him comes across as “I don’t get it, therefore it is bad” (which has nothing to do with CSS). I don’t know how much CSS Crockford does, so I don’t know if I should expect much more than that. Has he written anything that explains in detail his problems with CSS and / or a proposal for a different method of styling markup (other than JavaScript/DOM, or else I might lose the great amount of respect I have for the man)?