Comments on: JavaScript, Rebranded….. Check.

By: randomrandom

randomrandom — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:30:45 +0000

I used to call it ECMAscript. But then ECMA approved OOXML.

By: stevesnz

stevesnz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:16:44 +0000

ajaxian

who cares what it’s called

By: JeromeLapointe

JeromeLapointe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:02:18 +0000

I’m sure I could get my boss to pay for some TigerShark Certification.

By: doublerebel

doublerebel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:31:58 +0000

I vote that the Ajaxian site is pretty much Web 1.8, why not do a contest for a redesign? I know the blog contributors have enough on their plate, and obviously there’s tons of designers around with free time (read: commenters), let the people fix the problem! It will definitely garner more hits, how can we lose?
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Seriously, you guys have had [blog-spam/hacks/embed content-width/improperly escaped code in comments] problems for months (years?) and I don’t click on 95% of the links on these pages… Between the messy design and WordPress calls your server must be working epic overtime. Why not save money and appease your customers? Feel free to email if you’d like some assistance…. :-)
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Charles

By: WillPeavy

WillPeavy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:43:28 +0000

How about we use uize’s idea and call it JS, but also use webwitch’s ‘TigerShark’ idea as a codename? Of course the codename will be public knowledge, but it will sound cooler just because it is called a codename…. like this: “Hey, have you seen the new JS version 6.313245, codename TigerShark++?”

By: mdmadph

mdmadph — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:09 +0000

When I’m talking with non-JavaScript programmers, I’ve noticed that anything dealing with client-side web programming is almost exclusively called “AJAX” now — I’ve almost started to go along, just because it makes stuff easier. But seriously, who cares as long as we have jobs, eh?

And please, fix the damn spam in RSS links — I suggest an upgrade to your WordPress installation. It’s called “Movable Type” or “Textpattern.” :P

By: uize

uize — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:52:57 +0000

@httpwebwitch
SWEEEEEEEET! TigerShark it is, then! Sounds more potent than SquirrelFish. In fact, TigerShark eats SquirrelFishes for breakfast.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:38:41 +0000

Some people still think of JavaScript as a simple toy language for script kiddies. I’m finding it’s better for me to say I’m an Ajax programmer than a JavaScript programmer. Thank God for the word “Ajax.”

By: httpwebwitch

httpwebwitch — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:28:28 +0000

Interesting article, however I don’t know what we’d do to rebrand Javascript. Maybe give it a more macho, powerful-sounding name like “MegaScript” or “SolidScript” or “TigerShark”. Then we can roll our eyes condescendingly at everyone who continues using the OLD name a few months from now, realizing that they are idiots.

“Javascript? ha ha – oh you fool you mean Tigershark! Obviously you’re an idiot and I’m not.”

Or just rename it all “Mootools” and be done with it.

Oh, and by the way you have a whole pile of spammy Viagra links going out in your RSS feed. toodles!

By: ckorhonen

ckorhonen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:28 +0000

It would be nice to rebrand JavaScript, but I think at this stage it would just cause even more confusing – I already have clients asking for AJAX, DHTML, Java and JavaScript when they mean the same thing!

By: hikeeba

hikeeba — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:41:03 +0000

I registered just to tell agree that you have someone putting ads into your pages inside hidden DIV tags.

By: DuncanSmart

DuncanSmart — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:14:14 +0000

Your site has been hacked you idiots. Spam links in the RSS feed and in a hidden DIV in the HTML.

By: jonrandahl

jonrandahl — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:49:29 +0000

Uize, thanks for a good little smile and snicker on the train this morn!

KFS … Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

But I digest! ;-)

It seems to be that JS always has suffered from the “little brother” syndrome: no one is sure they want them to join in, and no one wants to admit it. But javascript has become more synchronous with development today, I can’t go a day without using it somehow. Does it matter what initials or acronym we use?

By: philm

philm — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:36:58 +0000

I always thought LiveScript sounded quite nice

By: vegitto

vegitto — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:10:58 +0000

Its so true that AJAX has virtually re-branded JavaScript. People who are very new to JavaScript always refer to everything they do as “AJAX”, even if its as simple as a Drop Down Effect where no Asynchronous call is made.

I completely disagree with the above comment however. C++ and C# are definitely not scripting languages and I don’t see how they can possibly be drawn in comparison to JavaScript.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:05:03 +0000

I tend to use AJAX in place of JavaScript when discussing projects with ‘normal’ people. People seem to attribute ‘cutting-edge’ with the meaningless acronym, hwerea JavaScript is too often either a) confused with Java or b) dismissed as a ‘toy-scripting-language’ (most usually by MS-centric folks who don’t appear to understand the fundamentals behind ASP.NET AJAX)

By: V1

V1 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:24 +0000

ooh ooh!!! Or we can do something really different…Lets not rebrand it! That will make a nice fashion statement..

I mean… Will people actually care more about it with a different name… NO.

By: uize

uize — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:59:32 +0000

Rebrand it simply “JS”.

Then it’ll sound all abstruse and mysterious and it’ll have to be cool. Nice thing about “JS” is that it’s still true to what it is and its history, but it downplays the “scriptiness” aspect. Seems to work for PHP, C++, C#, XML, etc. Just go with an acronym.

It’s like Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes KFC. (Kentucky Fried Script, anyone? Mmmmmmmm……. fried script……… aaararargahrghgrhghhhhh)