Hi all,
This might sound a bit weird but anyways here I go. Recently after
witnessing the popularity of AJAX/DHTML, and after enjoying Gmail's
fairly cool UI, I'm left wondering...is there going to be a point in
the future when Javascript developers would like to hide their
sourcecode from prying eyes because they think they'd put in enough
efforts into coding and they wouldn't want to give up the commercial
value in their code for nothing? You spend a few nights creating a good
looking web interface with AJAX, and then some guy just steals it and
uses it for his purpose. Is that fine? (I do understand that something
like this would be deemed as copyright violation; but are you gonna
rely just on copyright law to protect your source code?)
This brings to my next question...Why don't we have clients executing
javascript binaries instead of interpreting javascript sourcecode? Are
there any architectural reasons why this is not possible?
Cheers,
Harish