I don't think he said "absolutely everyone, including specifically Erik Weber", Erik. You turn out, in the end, to be just a person: not people. ///;-)
Jack On 4/19/05, Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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...) > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
