Re: Another standard?
"Without these, we would be back in the mid-to-late-90s world"
Uh-huh. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Rhetorical dig of course.
HTML was quite sufficient for pure information delivery. Which in turn was/is sufficient for a numerable group of people. Those who fancy Web 2.0 interactive malarkery were a bit neglected back then. Not anymore.
"of having to press the big old HTML SUBMIT button in order to have anything on any web page change and full-page reloads for any change to the page content"
Good for a frequently changing page. But why use a metric fuckton of scripts in the otherwise static page? Often messing with the page loading, thus preventing people from getting to the information therein.
Let's sum it up tidily: healthy use of whateverscript is tolerable, abuse is not. And it's usually the abuse that causes bad blood and angry comments.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
