> Correctly written web sites use java script for housekeeping behind > the scenes and nothing more.
Depending on what you mean by "housekeeping", there's also a place for optimizations, such as client-side checking of form fields for obvious errors before submitting the form. (A simple example is checking that a required field is nonempty.) I'd also argue that there can be such a thing as a correctly written page that actually depends on Javascript. For example, I have a (so far very partial) card game which is designed to run in-browser, with the client side being written in JavaScript. Turn off JavaScript and it won't work, yes, but I see that as no different from, say, something written in Python failing to run for lack of a Python interpreter. The problem, to my mind, arises when a page could degrade gracefully when faced with lack of JS, but doesn't. I'm not sure how I feel about things like, say, "Enable JavaScript to see comments on this post" when it could be done but, in the opinion of the page's provider/author, just isn't worth the resource investment. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
