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Author: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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Subject: Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript
On 2024-08-01 15:12, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Can’t tell you.
>
> I think it’s optimized for Chromium. The only browser I’ve had any
> trouble with is Safari.
>
> -David Schwartz



Years ago I used jQuery to deal with the browser anomalies.



>
>> On Aug 1, 2024, at 3:02 PM, wrote:
>> On 2024-08-01 14:34, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>
>>> Javascript is morphing into a universal assembly language /
>>> portable intermediate language for web-based needs. It’s also
>>> used on an increasing number of back-end services. It’s not
>>> exclusively for Ajax any more.
>>> I use something called TMS WEB Core that uses the pas2js
>>> transpiler to compile Delphi/Object Pascal into js that lets you
>>> build web apps within the Delphi IDE written in Object Pascal, and
>>> it runs inside the web browser. They had to add some (very
>>> welcome) tweaks to the OP language to deal with async issues, but
>>> it’s really cool and very easy to work with. I can’t say if
>>> Delphi itself is growing, but it works with FreePascal and Lazarus
>>> as well.
>>> They have a new feature in beta that provides a full live HTML
>>> editor within the Delph IDE that will make it a LOT easier to do
>>> fully responsive UI design using HTML4 and CSS.
>>> -David Schwartz
>>
>> How does Delphi, and others, deal with the quirkiness of JS - each
>> browser interprets JS just a little different?
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2024, at 1:43 PM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
>> <> wrote:
>> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:31:09 -0700
>> Hi,
>> I read that WordPress is on a 10 year plan to move away from PHP and
>> become all JavaScript.
>> Anyone aware of this?
>> 1. I wasn't aware of it.
>> 2. Why????
>> 3. If it will take 10 years, is it really worth it? And 10 years
>> from
>> now, might Javascript be considered old and not so good? I know a
>> lot of people who don't like Javascript, some people disable
>> Javascript, and some people use browsers that don't do Javascript.
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