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Re: Pictures of Seattle GATS 2001 now on PNLTC site!
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 12 Dec 2001 01:39:20 GMT
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jrclark@*AntiSpam*nospam.aol.com
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Chris Gray wrote:
> "Matthew J. Chiles" <mchiles@goldendale.net> writes:
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> > Please stop by and see the show! There is a ton of new stuff including a
> > Carnival, many new buildings and redevelopment of several traditional areas.
> >
> > -Matt :)
> >
> > PS - Email me any bug reports. Next up will be pictures of the OMSI show in
> > Portland, which takes place this weekend.
>
> Well, this isn't exactly a bug report, but...
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> I visited the pages. Everything I tried to look at, other than top-level
> pages, was blank. I examined the page sources, and saw that they are 100%
> JavaScript, which I virtually always have turned off. Way too big of a
> security hole. Since I have other things to do today, I didn't bother
> turning it on to see the pages.
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> Question: what on earth do you gain by making pages so dependent on a
> buggy and insecure browser feature? What facility that JavaScript gives
> you is so important that you *must* have it?
> --
> Experience should guide us, not rule us.
> Chris Gray
Chris,
We choose to use JavaScript because it streamlines the process of updating our
site. This is a critical feature for us, since club members would prefer to spend
the bulk of our free time building MOCs, not building web pages.
Thanks.
Rick Clark
Member, PNLTC
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