On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Toseland<toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: >> In fact, we do detect their platform, but we use javascript. So there are two >> issues here : >> the user disabled the javascript (we should use server-side identification, >> ian's right), > > I disagree, php or java reduces performance and increases costs, for all > hosting options.
Are you serious? I can imagine someone making that kind of argument against dynamic page generation in 1994, but not now. There is no way that we are going to migrate our website to a hosting option that does not support some form of dynamic page generation, that would be total insanity. Brendan is right, this should be done server-side, and we'd be totally handicapping ourselves if we don't have the ability for server-side dynamic page generation. I'm having a hard time believing its even necessary to debate this. > We will still need javascript for it to work smoothly. But if javascript is > turned off, we can just > display all of them - it doesn't have to look good. I don't like using Javascript for this, and I certainly don't like the assumption that we are no-longer permitted to do any dynamic page generation server side. That is crazy. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588 Fax: +1 512 276 6674
