grauzone wrote:
Alexander Pánek wrote:
grauzone wrote:
browsers. What's the big deal everyone have with Javascript?
It's unnecessary, annoying, slower, and adds security holes.
When using Firefox, I usually use NoScript to block all scripts by
default. Sometimes, some minor things don't work, and I have to
enable JS. Now it's really rare to see functionality that couldn't be
provided without JS. Rather, web designers seem to be really dumb and
do stuff like replacing real links by script functions. As a prime
example take YouTube. It's like YouTube doesn't believe in a life
without AJAX! The simplest things don't work anymore. What for?
About AJAX, you know it breaks the back button and all other sorts of
practical things you are used from normal web browsing. And
occasionally, they use it for animations. Animations what for? They
only introduce artificial GUI latency. (You know, Win 3.11 feels
faster.) A related example for annoying AJAX things are those
"applet" like boxes, that contain a "loading" gif, and apparently
loads a HTML subtree using AJAX.
For completely over-engineered AJAX waste look at the Tango docs on
dsource. I mean, it emulates frames, and the end result is worse than
with good old frames! Ah yes, we all know frames are "outdated", but
AJAX is hip and new! Let's emulate frames, because we feel it's too
slow to reload the whole page again! (Now now, I wonder if the Tango
docs even require a webserver. Maybe that's the reason why there's no
downloadable documentation? But maybe I'm blaming the wrong thing here.)
They told use not to use <blink> or <marquee>? OK, we'll just use JS!
Among the best uses of JS I've seen are snow flakes moved by a script.
/rant (I feel better now.)
Look mah, JS and Flash combined in shiny modal windows:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/27/modal-windows-in-modern-web-design/
No, I really don’t want to torture you. Well, maybe a little. :P
Oh god... why...
*snip*
“The modal window has many advantages. For example, when a modal window
contains a smaller element, the user doesn’t need to load an entirely
new page just to access it (another way to achieve the same effect is
e.g. by using AJAX-based tabs). By providing modal windows, you improve
the usability of your website. Having to load pages over and over will
annoy most users, so avoiding that is definitely a good thing. Modal
windows also allow you to save space by getting rid of large elements
that don’t need to be on the main page. For example, rather than putting
a full video on a page, you can just provide a link, thumbnail or button
of some sort.”
Because. ;)
