Mitchell Baker posted on Firefox’s effort to implement ECMAscript 4 (which is really JavaScript with another name) and she said:

JavaScript is a fundamental element of the web. It’s fundamental in human interaction with the web. Updating JavaScript’s capabilities updates the power of the web itself.

I agree with her. You may dismiss JavaScript as a toy; as a decent idea that has gone horribly, horribly wrong; or a good gun to shoot yourself in the foot with.  The this day of web-enablement, you will come in contact with JavaScript.  And you’d better be ready to deal with it.

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