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Month: February 2014

Re: [trinity-devel] new website thoughts

From: Baron <baron@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:53:53 +0000

On Friday 21 February 2014 11:20:56 E. Liddell wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:32:43 -0500
>
> Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
> > What's wrong with JavaScript? Are you just that Ludditus?
>
> It isn't innately evil, but I have a policy that it should be used
> only where it does something useful that can't be done on the server
> side, and if it is used, it has to downgrade gracefully.
> 90% of all Javascript on the Web is at best questionable in its
> usefulness and undergoes no downgrade testing.  I wanted the
> site to be usable in Lynx (which has no Javascript capability at
> all), and for people who prefer to turn Javascript off to keep it
> from being used as a vector for unwanted ads and other nasties.
>
> E. Liddell

+1

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            Baron.