On 22 Dec 1998, Stein Vrale writes:
> Another point is that the current html layout should always be
> available, for browsers not supporting frames/javascript. The current
> html is also fast, the javascript version will be slow on a slow
> machine.
Yes yes yes. The current plain simple HTML approach has the virtue
that it works in *any* browser... that matters.
> So I wonder, is it possible to create a new "htmlplus" module (or
> something), stuff all the "fancy" html generating code there, and
> overide the "native" html functions when prefered by the user? It
> seems (from the dialog code) that the html dialog functions can be
> overriden by functions in other modules, but will this only work in
> the current module or will it also override in all other
> modules/core?
The problem with this approach is that it sets interface style (plain
or fancy HTML) per *machine*. I would prefer to have a way for the
user to choose the fancy interface when the user knows they have a
browser that can handle the fancy stuff (or have it select based on
what browser is detected, if you want to get clever).
A single machine may be (theoreticalluy) admined from a nice fancy
fast new machine with NetScape 4.5 at work, and from an old slow 4MB
386SX16 running Lynx at other times. It would be good not to assume
that a given server is managed exclusively either from nice shiny new
fast machines or from older ones.
Jonathan
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