>These board creators just want to ease the path for most web developers to become hardware developers
Most web developers don't know javascript though. Even the ones who write javascript, I'd estimate fewer than 1 in 10 know the language even at a basic level. Most people are just grabbing messes of jquery infested crap and copy+pasting it. Then making random changes until it seems to work. That's why so much javascript out there is invalid according to the language spec, and doesn't work in less popular browsers.
Most web developers don't know javascript though. Even the ones who write javascript, I'd estimate fewer than 1 in 10 know the language even at a basic level. Most people are just grabbing messes of jquery infested crap and copy+pasting it. Then making random changes until it seems to work. That's why so much javascript out there is invalid according to the language spec, and doesn't work in less popular browsers.