the childhoodstory about my frontendphobia
I don't want to write a lot, but since everybody thinks that I hate GUIs.. This is not the case! While it's generally true, that I hate a specific GUI, I don't hate the concept of a GUI. (That means I like eyecandy, even if this might come as a complete shock now!)
The thing I hate about Flash GUIs and JavaScript GUIs and the like is, that they are friggin slow. In the console, everything reacts fast and responds quickly. When I click around in flash, everything gets blurry and the like. This is just hampdydampdy stuff.. For example: I really love to make GUIs on the iPhone because everything is fast and very quick in responding. I think this has to do with the languages they are made in.. I just hate that javascript/flash quirkmode stuff where everything tends to be overengineered today. (This does not contradict the fact, that there are cool JavaScript/Flash UIs out there) There are situations in which it is nice to have JavaScript.. (of course!) Like when you want to customize your Dashboard or do ClientSide input checking or doing collapsable/expandable folder-trees and the like. But please stop when it gets barely usable on a Mac Pro! :)
And this is why I hate to make such GUIs - they just don't scale and I just don't like doing something which makes something else slow just to get some blithering marketing idiot to talk about it.
The thing I hate about Flash GUIs and JavaScript GUIs and the like is, that they are friggin slow. In the console, everything reacts fast and responds quickly. When I click around in flash, everything gets blurry and the like. This is just hampdydampdy stuff.. For example: I really love to make GUIs on the iPhone because everything is fast and very quick in responding. I think this has to do with the languages they are made in.. I just hate that javascript/flash quirkmode stuff where everything tends to be overengineered today. (This does not contradict the fact, that there are cool JavaScript/Flash UIs out there) There are situations in which it is nice to have JavaScript.. (of course!) Like when you want to customize your Dashboard or do ClientSide input checking or doing collapsable/expandable folder-trees and the like. But please stop when it gets barely usable on a Mac Pro! :)
And this is why I hate to make such GUIs - they just don't scale and I just don't like doing something which makes something else slow just to get some blithering marketing idiot to talk about it.
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@ 15.03.2008 12:45 CESTyes, it's true. in some case javascript/flash can be nice and cool mainly in websites, but do the people ask themselves if it's even helpful? like marc said, i like it fast. i hate it to wait, just because somebody thought "oh yeah, I go build a website with thousands of javascript/flash elemnts".
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