Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-08-01 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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, techli...@phpc

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-08-01 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
Can’t tell you. I think it’s optimized for Chromium. The only browser I’ve had any trouble with is Safari. -David Schwartz > On Aug 1, 2024, at 3:02 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > > On 2024-08-01 14:34, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> Javascript is morphing into a universa

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-08-01 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
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 call

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-08-01 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
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 Del

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-08-01 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-08-01 13:43, 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 wil

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-31 17:07, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: I suspect it means that WP will be turned into a gigantic back-end SaaS server and the pages will contain dozens of small js code snippets that issue requests to the back-end. That kind of sounds like AJAX. That suggests the entire

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
I suspect it means that WP will be turned into a gigantic back-end SaaS server and the pages will contain dozens of small js code snippets that issue requests to the back-end. That suggests the entire Admin portal will be quite transformed (it should be anyway, as it depends on so many screen

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-31 13:10, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote: I can't find anything about this, however I will say that _the_ reason why Wordpress is as ubiquitous as it has been is because: * It's easy to use, but possibly more importantly... * The backend is entirely written in PHP

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-31 12:59, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: I recall hearing about this a few months back, although I'm not certain if when. I, personally, don't like JS -- and I am frustrated how more and more of Web 3.0 or whatever version they say were on now is wholly dependent on JS. I think XKCD

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
I can't find anything about this, however I will say that *the* reason why Wordpress is as ubiquitous as it has been is because: 1. It's easy to use, but possibly more importantly... 2. The backend is entirely written in PHP Specifically #2 has allowed it to proliferate on cheap shared hosting s

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-07-31 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
I recall hearing about this a few months back, although I'm not certain if when. I, personally, don't like JS -- and I am frustrated how more and more of Web 3.0 or whatever version they say were on now is wholly dependent on JS. I think XKCD nailed it on the head, as they most often do ... https

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
Someone asked in this chain about what was so bad about PHP in the "old times". There were quite a few problems with earlier versions of PHP, especially 5 or older. Register globals was on, I can't even begin to explain how bad that was. the mysql library was very prone to SQL injection, but was

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
Thanks, but I’ve never used Lazarus. It would probably take several hours to get familiar enough with it to do a presentation. Surely there must be someone in Phoenix who can give a live presentation of Lazarus (or anywhere for a virtual presentation). There are plenty of videos on YT and vario

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-04-21 02:12, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700 Hi, This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has to do with resources give

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:43:39 -0700 >So I turned back to Delphi and didn’t look back. Hi David, Would you like to give a Lazarus demo/presentation at a future online GoLUG meeting? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700 >Hi, > >This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I >think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has >to do with resources given the shift from server side processing to >browser b

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-20 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Thank you Eric!! Great feedback!! On 2024-04-20 10:42, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote: Yeah, Java scripts a bit of a PITA, especially when it comes to accessibility technology. Also, depending on the machine, it can use up resources, fast, cause memory leaks, and a lot of other issues. Als

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-20 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
David, Interesting Feedback. I keep saying you need a blog. Keith On 2024-04-20 13:43, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: I started learning Delphi (originally called TurboPascal 8) when it was first released in 1995. In 2000 I spent most of the year building a web-based app using PHP,

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-20 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
I started learning Delphi (originally called TurboPascal 8) when it was first released in 1995. In 2000 I spent most of the year building a web-based app using PHP, HTML, JS, and MySQL, a project I later abandoned b/c after digging around in some open-source code I found things there that would

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-20 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Yeah, Java scripts a bit of a PITA, especially when it comes to accessibility technology. Also, depending on the machine, it can use up resources, fast, cause memory leaks, and a lot of other issues. Also, unless WordPress decides to add additional code for accessibility (which there are class o