frameworks

Here are the bits and pieces I learned from the talks I attended at the second day of JSConf 2017 in Berlin: Applying NASA coding standards to JavaScript “Would you fly in a plane with an HTML and JavaScript instrument panel?” was the question Denis Radin asked at the beginning of the talk. While he is hopeful that improving the overall quality of JavaScript code may lead some day to the browser being the “universal GUI”, I remain skeptical for aviation, space exploration and other mission-critical systems that need real-time performance characteristics and high fault tolerance.

Here are the bits and pieces I learned from the talks I attended at the first day of JSConf 2017 in Berlin: What’s new in Netscape Navigator 2.0 Marcin Szczepanski tried to build the TodoMVC app with the first JavaScript implementation that was available - in Netscape Navigator 2.0. There was no DOM to manipulate, you could only call document.write during the render call. What he came up with, was an application architecture based on HTML framesets with a “parent frame” that holds the application state and child frames that are re-loaded and thus re-rendered with the current state whenever an event occurs.