On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Henry Nelson wrote: >"Irritating" is putting it mildly. As you say, it's downright criminal >in certain cases. I have javascript turned off, too, and if I can't get >the information I need, I do make a point of writing the people. In most >cases, though, it is actually a blessing to not have commercial sites >whipping me off somewhere I don't want to go to. > >> (In my opinion, about 80% of the JavaScript out there is totally >> unnecessary, and 19 of the remaining 20% is due to lazy programming.) > >DITTO!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, just had to get it out of my system.)
Egads, I can't believe I'm actually semi-defending Javascript. I think that *most* of it is crap, but there have been some times when it is used well on a site. the one I can think of is www.dvdpricesearch.net.. aah, I think bmgmusicservice.com uses a lot of javascript too now. I also used to hate frames, but a semi-good example of frames is http://corona.bc.ca/films/filmlistingsFramed.html (I say semi-good because it still ticks me off that I can't go back to the "date" lookup and have it still selected to the one I previously used.. But the other advantages of the frame list were better than the non-framed version.) ANYHOW, my main reply was actually about filtering. Personally, as long as I have "create new windows" turned off in iCab's preferences, JavaScript can be useful. (And in the Preferences, I can turn ON that ability for the few sites where I need/want it.) Basically -- I would say that LIMITED Javascript can be better than no Javascript (and _is_ in a few examples). Heck, I go to a bunch of these sites with GUI browsers only because the CLI borwsers can't handle the Javascript. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
