Hi BJ:
Just to give a little more info:
At one time the US Defense Department did not allow Javascript on its
computers (as you describe below). Not sure if this is still a mandate.
They also have a very strict accessibility requirement called Section
508 which details how web pages should be usable by visually impaired
individuals. I know for a fact that Section 508 is still enforce and
that OFBiz does not meet many those standards.
I'm wondering how HTML5 might help take up some of the slack?
Anyhow, I tend to agree with you. At the very least, all webpages should
degrade "nicely" when Javascript is disabled.
Best regards,
Ruth
On 9/3/11 11:44 AM, BJ Freeman wrote:
For sometime I have been promoting ofbiz to a larger Company.
it is National with headquarters in One City and Multiple manufacturing
and Assembly Plants in multiple States.
They use VPN to tie all together.
My contact was impressed in ofbiz I showed him on the Demo site, while
he was at home. He went to show others at work and it did not work well.
His Company has a security rule that does not allow any JavaScript into
their computers, as well all their internal websites can not use javascript.
You can See the results by disabling JavaScript in your browser and look
at the Ofbiz Demo.
I have been given to the end of Sept to come up with a proposal on
delivering the functionality but without JavaScript.
The staffing for doing this is an additional 10-20 positions for 1-5 years.
My problem is I have not found enough people that:
1)Understand the Design of Ofbiz
2)Understand the Modeling used based on the videos David did
3)willing to work with the tools that was developed in Ofbiz.
4)Know Ofbiz well enough to reuse code already available.
5)be able to develop code that will do the what is done in JavaScript
but no use javascript.
This project is worth 100's thousand US dollars. Of that, I am willing
of use 10% to fund those working on the project to augment ofbiz in the
same spirit.
The focus of this email is maybe the ofbiz team should re-think the
direction OFbiz is going.
