On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > and, perhaps worst of all, sites that abandon HREF tags in favor of > javascript event handlers that are functionally identical, aside from > breaking if javascript is disabled. The entire concept of "graceful > degradation" appears to have been forgotten.
Which is completely insane, the only time I ever see this is for stupid things like tracking where people go on a website, despite the fact all they'd have to do is write a script that parses the referrer logs, add an apache module, or (best yet) use a cookie to do this (because the user can easily opt out of this, especially in more modern browsers like Mozilla that don't have an all-or-nothing attitude towards cookies). > Odder still, we have arrived in a state where "browser independent" > has somehow come to mean "uses a variety of highly browser-specific > techniques to ensure that it always looks the same" rather than "it > doesn't care what browser you're using". Another group of lowlife morons who should be violently killed in front of thier children. > the job. Nonstandard HTML extensions may make it possible for you, > but if you really want/need absolute consistency, I've heard than PDF > is a much better option. However, this tends to also alienate high portions of your audience. -- Baloo