I'd like to avoid javascript if at all possible. Doing stuff server side is almost always better.
Believe me, I know just enough javascript to get by and that's about all. I'm all about the server personally.
Easy control for DFA ===* javascript, since it's extremely easy to push instantaneously with no polling--DFA could change anything whenever they please, good example is the "Code Amber" ticker--and anyone, running our tools or no, can just paste it into a page or block.
Flexibility for the site admins using our kit (and non-top-down approach), though, would seem to dictate the other way.
So follow-up question: Zephyr/Zack, does DFA have someone who could write a javascript for non-kit sites? I bet it wouldn't be that hard to code, it'd get used asap by folks who don't know zip about RSS or have any of those tools available, and an action ticker a la Code Amber (http://www.codeamber.org/, in action on any page @ New Homemaker, see sig file--some iffy scripting that I actually cleaned up for him but he has yet to implement) would be faboo. Main drawback is that DFA would need to keep it updated.
Just some thoughts, I'm cool with whatever anyone decides and I'm hardly a javascript advocate. I'm just thinking about my little housewives with angelfire pages. :)
Lynn S.
*for Ping ;)
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