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February 19th 2006, 10:36 PM
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If the consoles and cellphones don't support javascript that is a flaw in them not anything javascript based. Javascript is a popular and powerful web langauge, so they should adopt it (especially if they know what's best for them).

Besides with AJAX web applications can be made to be more powerful and faster, so since the main target (those using IE. Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape) can use it, it's quite a good thing. Besides I doubt most cellphones have the power to handle it.

As for the search engine comment: noone (as far as I know) has suggested making all of a page with javascript or HTML. AJAX isn't the best for everything, just for web applications, where it wins hands down. In other words Google could still find the website's home page, which is the most important page, especially for search results. Also I see no reason why search engines couldn't adapt. They had to when Google came along and started doing their type of searching, which had previously been considered implausible or too hard to do by most.

You also seem to suggest that it should cater to everyone and everything web related, which isn't just impossible and implausible, but also silly and ridiculous. It is meant for making web applications only, not whole websites.