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"Andrew Allan" <aallan@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Therefore, liberal use of javascript is good...
Not in my book... JavaScript seems to cause problems in the browsers I tend
to use (somewhat old versions of Netscape and MSIE - perhaps I should
upgrade, but I just don't have the time to upgrade to every new browser
version over my dialup line). Netscape likes to go into hibernation while
running JavaScript (the whole app locks up for close to a minute - makes
browsing painfully slow), and MSIE likes to barf on JavaScript errors,
making you answer 10 dialog boxes in order to view the site, then it is
non-functional because some critical piece of dynamic content is dead. Then
there's JavaScript "links" that force opening a new window (I prefer good
old HREF links that let ME decide to open a new window or not). I also used
to use a version of Netscape that would periodically crash on JavaScript so
I had to disable JavaScript (the most painful thing that resulted from that
was that I couldn't use some BrickShelf links because the redirect was done
with JavaScript instead of the HTML re-direct tag).
So you will see me being an advocate for the capability of older browsers to
be able to use the site without too much pain. If something can be done with
plain old HTML, do it that way.
Frank
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