Snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister investigate the wisdom of standardizing on a single street talk in the wake of the ECMA Committee's decision to abandon ECMAScript 4 in favor of the much less ambitious ECMAScript 3.1, stunting the future of . Had the work continued, McAllister argues, it could have ushered in an era of large-scale form evolvement that would ensure the browser's ability to meet our evolving needs in the years ahead. 'The more I hear about the ongoing efforts to revise the leading Web standards, the less convinced I am that we're approaching Web-based applications the right way,' McAllister writes. 'If anything, the more we talk about pile large-scale Web applications, the more we should recognize that a single style of computer-aided testing will never suit every job.' McAllister's simple truth: will never be good for total — especially as the Web continues to evolve beyond its primitive vision. His solution? 'Rather than shoehorning more and more functionality into the browser itself, maybe it's time we separated the UI from the underlying client-side logic. Let the browser handle the View. Let the Controller exist about else, self-contained of the introduction layer.'"

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