Re: [Lynx-dev] Crisis Magazine in L Y N X

[Mouse]

> Correctly written web sites use java script for housekeeping behind
> the scenes and nothing more.

Depending on what you mean by "housekeeping", there's also a place for
optimizations, such as client-side checking of form fields for obvious
errors before submitting the form.  (A simple example is checking that
a required field is nonempty.)

I'd also argue that there can be such a thing as a correctly written
page that actually depends on Javascript.  For example, I have a (so
far very partial) card game which is designed to run in-browser, with
the client side being written in JavaScript.  Turn off JavaScript and
it won't work, yes, but I see that as no different from, say, something
written in Python failing to run for lack of a Python interpreter.

The problem, to my mind, arises when a page could degrade gracefully
when faced with lack of JS, but doesn't.

I'm not sure how I feel about things like, say, "Enable JavaScript to
see comments on this post" when it could be done but, in the opinion of
the page's provider/author, just isn't worth the resource investment.

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