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As a developer in a web agency, we create a lot of "fancy" (= sites that are interesting to look at, and they need to draw attention) websites, no it is not to create a text fade that can be done in CSS btw. It is to validate forms with ajax, it is to display ajax loaded content, it is to upload a file without needing a page refresh, to create a simple image slider/viewer, ... Of course the content is king, but do not forget that there are a lot of stuff going around content. Look at Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest, ... Sure they could work without any Javascript at all, but it will not be the same experience. Like somebody here already said, we beginning to create web apps because it's possible and because it's cheaper to do directly in the browser than to hire a native device developer (another discussion). We can't forget Javascript nowadays, it's a big and popular language for a reason, it allows the developers to create interesting user experiences (and apps) inside a browser. There are a lot of fine examples of good javascript implementations, but of course there are also companies that use it the "bad" way. |