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:  |  Search Engines, and the JavaScript-Frameworks Plague
Sometimes I feel that the web is kind of "plagued" with scripts that are built on top of existing frameworks.
This is especially true when I start searching for JavaScript ideas which has to be framework-less, framework-free, especially when I have to produce legacy code.
It's not that I'm trying to search for an easy cut-and-paste escape, but the search-process used to be helpful in terms of giving me info on approaches, directions and gotchas.
Now, I see dollar signs and/or jQuery plugins everywhere whenever I search, and whenever I want to get info on the real actual "prototype" techniques, I get bunches of "Prototype" framework stuff which I don't want. That's probably a product name (or whatever) which I hate the most.
A very similar case is when I'm trying to search ASP 2.0 specific stuff and get garbage about ASP.NET instead. And the aftermath of these in real life pisses me off, when I try to hire people with JavaScript skills and they talk about jQuery and not even knowing $hit about document.getElementById.
This is so frustrating. I guess this can't ever be solved until there's a new type of search engine which could actually return "properly categorized" results.
I'm starting to have this urge to come up with something just so that I can utilize existing search engines without getting any framework-full results. Probably by writing some sort of Firefox add-on or bookmarklet which helps you search google and append a whole bunch of exclusion strings to filter the results. But I just don't have the energy for this.
Am I the only one who needs this?Started By Terry Young on Aug 26, 2009 at 12:00:31 AM
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| Earlier Replies | Replies 2 to 4 of 4 | Later Replies | | | bod1467 on Aug 26, 2009 at 2:30:54 AM (# 2) I know what you mean. Fortunately in situations like this I sometimes turn to Sitepoint ... there are some really knowledgeable, helpful people there that know their stuff.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_DOM_Reference is also worth bookmarking I believe, as a refresher. :-)
xisxis on Aug 27, 2009 at 3:36:53 PM (# 3)teste
bod1467 on Aug 28, 2009 at 8:23:55 AM (# 4)Balls to you too.
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