On 13.03.2008 16:20, Luca Morandini wrote:
This means that Forms must depend on Ajax (Dojo to be more precise)
despite the fact you use Ajax or not.
This is not quite true I think. Forms used to have two different
stylesheets: forms-field-styling.xsl and
forms-advanced-field-styling.xsl. The first was a "pure" implementation,
the second one used JS-enabled widgets.
Which is a departure from 2.1.9, which, IIRC, worked even with
Javascript disabled on the browser.
I don't think Forms used to work without Javascript. There have always
been onload handlers as far as I remember, but for the general idea,
yes, it seems this has changed. If we are migrating to Dojo 1.0 that is
definitely one of the requirements I'd like to see being addressed.
Forms should work without Dojo. Dojo might be a requirement for
Ajax-enabled though. GoogleMap should definitely be moved to advanced
field stylesheet.
I presume that a way to disentangle forms and ajax blocks would be to
make two different forms-field-styling.xsl (one with Javascript and/or
Ajax, the other without Javascript), loaded conditionally on ajax="true"
by forms-samples-styling.xsl.
As I wrote that was originally the idea between forms-field-styling.xsl
and forms-advanced-field-styling.xsl. We should get back to this separation.
Why I'm making such a plea ?
Well, the use of non-Javascript forms is a requirement for making
websites accessible, which is a mandatory for governmental websites in
Italy.
I don't quite agree with it, Javascript does not necessarily prevent
accessibility. I'm not too familiar with all the accessibility
requirements but for example the tabs we have in Forms should be fine,
aren't they?
Joerg
