2009/9/6 Lorenzo Villani <[email protected]> > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:58:00AM +0200, Antonio Pérez wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > <rant>sometimes I wish that simple web intefaces like this stop using > > > Javascript altogether.</rant> > > > > We are open to new ideas... ;) > > > > Well, having an interface that degrades gracefully when no JavaScript > is available can be a good start: at the moment the UI cannot be used > if JavaScript is disabled/broken/not available (like in text-based web > browsers). > > In my opinion the massive usage of JavaScript in the interface adds > very little when compared with the good-old <form> based pages. > > However, some frameworks are clever enough to degrade when JavaScript > is not available: if you are planning to rewrite the admin interface > in C++ ( :-) ) you can give a look at Wt [1] which is able to do all > of the above. >
IMO, Javascript should *always* be unintrusive (meaning, everything should work just fine without it), but it takes a concious effort to do this. For the past month? I've been using an 800MHz machine as my main desktop, so I've gotten into a tendency to keep javascript blocked with noscript so that I don't spike the cpu any time I try and do something. I understand that most people use substantially newer machines than this, but I feel it's a good idea to make things at least usable on ye old machines, as that is really all that some people have. More on the actual subject, the validation-on-unfocus seems a bit odd to me. Having it either validate as I type (after a delay of say, 1 second) or after I press some button would feel a bit more natural, I think. -- James Pearson -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
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