of course depending on what environment the app is intended to be used in
it may be perfectly ok to rely on the capabilities of the browser of your
users.
for example, some of the apps i develop are for use on an intranet only, in
which case i know that the browser installed on every box is IE5, so i can
use features(bugs? =) only available in IE, whereas in other cases you
would of course avoid using it, for example on an app that needed to be
used via terminal interface (lynx it up!)
what you have to be careful of tho is that you don't develop an app
intended for intranet or similar closed environment usage, then make it
really good, and management (or whoever) decide it would be good to have
access to it externally, cause then you may well run into the whole browser
copatibility issue anyway!
=)
my 0.02c
At 03:06 AM 3/2/01 -0300, JJeffman wrote:
>The event "OnChange" only happens when the user open the drop down list and
>change ( select ) a new value, this is not "just looking" .
>
>I don't like this kind of solution. If I have to put a button on the page I
>think the selection list must disappear. Why not give the user a interface
>with less "clicks"? May be we can reach another interface approach which
>turn it possible.
>
>Jayme.
>
>
>-----Mensagem Original-----
>De: Ron Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Enviada em: quinta-feira, 1 de março de 2001 18:48
>Assunto: Re: [PHP-DB] Drop down box
>
>
> > At 06:32 PM 3/1/2001 -0300, you wrote:
> > >The action you want is only available using JavaScript.
> >
> > True but the action *you* want is most definitely not what many of your
> > *users* are going to want. If you use Javascript this way your site will
> > be un-navigable if Javascript is turned off or the browser does not
>support
> > it. What's the big deal about a single button click? Also, using
> > Javascript this way means that if a user is just curious what the choices
> > are, you force a refresh without them necessarily wanting one.
> >
> > IMHO of course.
> >
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