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In article <Jym.wz3d77bsrk.fsf@econet.org>, Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org> wrote:

> =v= HTML, as with all the *MLs before it, is designed so that
> web pages can "degrade gracefully."  What that means is, if you
> somebody doesn't use a fancy new whiz-bang feature, they should
> still be able to read the web page.
> 
> =v= What this means is that JavaScript should AT MOST be used
> to provide bells and whistles for those who really want that
> sort of thing.  It should NOT be used for basic functionality
> that could be done with HTML itself.

The legitimate uses of javascript I've seen have been at work,
where certain browser-based applications use it to create
fairly complex forms that are really full-blown applications.
The difference betweeen that and the internet as a whole is that
both the server and browser are owned by the same
entity: a corporation that has developed or purchased software
for its internal use.

The key word in the above paragrph is "internal": Jym has a valid
point that is lost on too many website designers, who seem to think
the world revolves around them.  So, for instance, when I sent a
complaint to sfgate.com that the fonts were too small on my monitor
at work (particularly ones on the San Francisco Chronicle page used
for navigation ("news", "business", etc.),they just replied that they
had decided to use fixed-sized instead of relative-sized fonts.
Never mind that their monitors may have a different resolution or that
there website designers may have sharper vision (graphics designers
in particular tend to have above average vision, so they sometimes
produce stuff that is hard to read for the rest of us because it looks
fine to them).

Bill

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