Re: pros and cons of Ajax

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:25:10 -0500
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On 27-11-2010 15:35, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 27-11-2010 11:48, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 27-11-2010 11:02, Roedy Green wrote:

I detest javascript since so often web pages don't work in some
browsers because of JavaScript problems. It is like building your
house on sand.


Good dynamic sites provide a fallback to static HTML, so that even with
javascript switched off, they work. For example, if you use javascript
to submit a form when an option is picked from a select, then you leave
a submit button in there too, for the javascriptless to click. With a
touch of the right JS and CSS, you can then hide that submit button for
people who do have javascript if you like. Similarly, an AJAXy
add-to-cart button on a shopping site can have a normal form-submitting
action too, with javascript inhibiting it if it's able to handle the
operation via AJAX.


Browsers not supporting JS or users turning JS off are so rare today
that it is becoming less and less relevant to handle non-JS situation.


The usual responses to that are mobile browsers - where the more basic
phones still have very limited javascript support (eg my dreadful
18-month-old Blackberry Curve, where you have to go into a menu to
enable javascript on each page you need it on, whereupon it proceeds to
reload the page) and screenreaders used by the visually impaired.


The WebKit based ones (Android, iPhone, S60) and IEM based (WP)
should do JS.

But OK - BlackBerry still have significant market share.

Arne

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