In message <20021221000103.GB26473 at pegasus.wooledge.org>, Greg Wooledge <greg at wooledge.org> writes >Ian Clarke (ian at freenetproject.org) wrote: > >> Javascript allows us to make the user >> interface better than we otherwise could, > >I don't think this statement stands on its own. I fail to see how >an annoying popup window is "better" than having the information >presented inside the browser tab/window that I (the user) have >specifically put aside for this purpose.
Precisely. When I suggested further up the thread that we ask the user to choose to open a new browser window by voluntarily using the browser's *user* interface, the reply was something to the effect of; "I don't see how we can automate the user's hand and make him/her do that without some form of scripting"! Surely people know whether they want to keep one window open and open another, without java to do the thinking for them! > >Then again, I may not be a typical Freenet user. I turn off >Javascript in my web browers, completely, as my normal state of >operation. > >Or, on the other hand, I might be well within the norm for the >Freenet user population. We are, after all, a cantankerous, paranoid >bunch. I'm sure I'm not the only Javascript hater in Freenetland. > -- Roger Hayter _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
