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Re: A question for a non-programmer

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: A question for a non-programmer
Date 2012-10-14 10:55 +0000
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:41:56 +0200, Evertjan. wrote:

> This absolute "the correct method" without the addendum "for me" is the
> ultimate nonsense in programming, me thinks. Beginners asking for such
> "correct method" or "best method" should be forgiven by default, but
> should be swiftly corrected.

Oh certainly. If I can write six different approaches and have no idea 
which is the best way to achieve what I think the OP is trying to 
achieve, I'm sure there are others out there who can write other totally 
different approaches. Judging the "best" method will be problematical to 
say the least, for example innerHTML vs DOM manipulation. I'm tending 
towards the latter these days, on the general basis that it's harder to 
break the structure of a document as badly using dom manipulation calls 
as it is by setting elem.innerHTML to some string that breaks things.

But that comment was also a dig at certain posters who seem to only ever 
post criticism of other people's code, whilst never actually offering any 
code solutions of their own.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

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A question for a non-programmer fulio pen <fuliopen@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-13 14:29 -0700
  Re: A question for a non-programmer Danny <dann90038@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 14:48 -0700
    Re: A question for a non-programmer fulio pen <fuliopen@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-13 15:38 -0700
  Re: A question for a non-programmer Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 05:42 +0000
    Re: A question for a non-programmer "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-10-14 09:41 +0200
      Re: A question for a non-programmer Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 10:55 +0000
        Re: A question for a non-programmer fulio pen <fuliopen@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-14 09:45 -0700

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