At my company we've implemented intranet apps where the users do a significant amount of heads-down data entry. They need validation and adding in of date and telephone mark-up and they want it to happen without waiting for a server round-trip. That needed some heavy js. Other applications have been internet apps where we needed to support the widest variety of browsers and os'es. For that environment js is anathema. Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:47 am, Erik Weber said:
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.
You describe a good web SITE, and I couldn't agree with your criteria more! However, what you don't describe well is a web APPLICATION.
Web APPLICATIONS are where the scripting is, generally, needed, and where the UI tends to be more complex.
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.
No doubt, information is what makes it all worth it, absolutely. I might have a nice Mac OS UI, but if all it can show me is Wiggles videos and 3rd-grade math and naked pictures of Rue Paul, the information stinks and the whole thing isn't worth anything to me.
Erik -- who prefers mail2web to GMail.
Frank -- who would prefer to never have the words "naked pictures of Rue Paul" enter his brain again under ANY circumstances!
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