I think this is a "Red Herring" of an argument and a gross generalization. I suspect that with a review of access logs, that the clients actually accessing the site would show you that >95% are either Mozilla, Netscape, I.E. or Opera. I have a very strong doubt that users actually "disable javascript". But, lets take a little poll here and find out.
Cross browser javascript is really not that difficult to accomplish gracefully. There are certainly may many discussions/solutions for it on the web. I use it daily and quite successfully.
-Mark
David Graham wrote:
-1 on using javascript for major site functionality such as navigation. Many users browse with js turned off and it's a major pain getting it to
work across all browsers. IMO, Apache websites should be accessible to
all visitors.
David
--- "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been looking a the usage of javascript in the browser as a mechanism of "Client Side Includes". I've been considering the idea that
this can be used a a powerful mechanism to pull global navigation content into the site navigation without having to regenerate all the separate project pages everytime something changes on the global navigation for the Commons.
For instance
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="navigation.js"></SCRIPT>
could be added to the commons-site.jsl such that it would be used to include the contents of "navigation.js" into the navigation bar on the client side.
navigation.js would look something like:
document.write(' <div>'
+ ' <small>'
+ ' <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/";><img class="handle" src="./images/none.png" alt=""></img>BeanUtils</a>'
+ ' </small>'
+ ' </div>'
+ ' <div>'
+ ' <small>'
+ ' <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/";><img class="handle" src="./images/none.png" alt=""></img>Betwixt</a>'
+ ' </small>'
+ ' </div>'
...
+ ' <div>'
+ ' <small>'
+ ' <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/vfs/";><img class="handle" src="./images/none.png" alt=""></img>VFS</a>'
+ ' </small>'
+ ' </div>'
+ ' <div>'
+ ' <small>'
+ ' <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/workflow/";><img class="handle" src="./images/none.png" alt=""></img>Workflow</a>'
+ ' </small>'
+ ' </div>');
This way, any time a change was made to navigation.js, it would show up instantly on all the commons projects navigation. as teh navigation.js is pull independently and rendered in the browser.
thoughts? -Mark
-- Mark Diggory Software Developer Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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