Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
On Tue, April 19, 2005 5:30 am, Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) said:
I also think that a well-designed web-UI does not need JS at all...
Then what results is exactly what you say: a WEB UI. This was good enough five years ago, it isn't today.
People expect, generally, more robust UIs delivered in a browser. They
expect webapps that look, feel and work more like fat clients. This is
all a virtual impossibility without some dergee of scripting.
I, with respect for the author, disagree with this entirely.
I am people, and this is not what I expect or desire at all. As a user, I expect and desire 1) A fast download 2) my bookmarks to work/easy to remember URLs 3) an organized and well-thought-out left rail 4) a go home link at the top 5) a two-field registration 6) an encrypted log on 7) content I can read in a text-only browser. None of these require any browser scripting at all.
And most importantly, I want information that I regard as being of great quality. Anything beyond the seven I mentioned only gets in my way.
Erik -- who prefers mail2web to GMail.
There are of course cases where this doesn't natter... sometimes the simplistic Google front page approach is perfect. But you'll pretty quickly run up against some serious roadblocks to developing anything other than "classic" web UIs without scripting.
Your point is well-taken... scripting does indeed entail some level of danger... but so does driving a car, and we all do that without much thought :) (which is of course part of the problem with driving today, but I digress...)
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