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Subject:	Re: New homepage for LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:56:22 GMT
Reply-To:	Frank Filz <FFILZ-LISTS@MINDSPRING.COMstopspammers>
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"Andrew Allan" <aallan@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message news:HtDvsD.qBG@lugnet.com... > 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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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Which could very easily be changed to send the correct Location redirect header, so that it would be completely invisible to the user... --Bram (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) I agree with Frank here 100%. Not everybody has Javascript enabled, and if they have to fool around with their browser settings every time they want to visit, that'll drive people away if nothing will. Showers are great places for thinking. (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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		Re: New homepage for LUGNET
(...) Echoing the above, to me the current design of Lugnet is very LSI friendly and logically laid out. In my opinion this makes Lugnet one of the great sites (similar to Yahoo and Google) and I'm by no means unique in my opinion. Lugnet's greatest (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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