Jayeblog

Javascript sucks. I mean it really sucks. It sucks to code and it sucks to debug, it’s clunky, and the notion of Javascript cross-browser compatibility is a joke. I often ignored Javascript altogether in my early days, using the classic “well, a lot of users turn it off, so what’s the point?” argument to cover my ass. In the face of the latest W3Schools statistics, however, it’s clear that excuse no longer holds water—as of January of 2008, the W3C claims that up to 95% of their visitors are supporting Javascript in their browsers.

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Jayeblog’s a bit dusty, and for that I apologize. Life is busy for a third-year undergrad, and I’ve had a string of false-starts the last few times I’ve sat down to write here. It’s something I’d love to do more often, but I’ve discovered a few bugs with my blogging process.

Most of the time I’m sitting down to write about some new project I’m working on. As soon as I start to write, though, I inevitably open up Dreamweaver and begin fiddling with the project instead of blogging about it.

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