Brian Walters wrote: >Quoting Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: > >> Only a few curmudgeons -- a high percentage of the PDML makeup -- >> complain about Javascript, technology which is as much a part of the >> web underpinnings as HTML and CSS. I expect more than a few still >> mutter about content vs form while browsing. Any web design done wrong >> is annoying, not just JS. > >I wear my curmudgeon-ness with pride! > >Having said that, I use a bit of Javascript on my own website - >there's no rule that says I have to be logical or consistent :-)> - >but at least the images on my site still show up if JS is disabled.
Quite right. There's nothing wrong with a bit of JavaScript. What I object to is JavaScript that loads other JavaScript from third parties. Some of that, in the case of Flickr, seems to itself load still more JavaScript from *fourth* parties. The security risk becomes too great at that point. If I'm visiting whatever.com I'm usually OK with running JavaScript from whatever.com. If the JavaScript at whatever.com tries to load JavaScript from somewhere-else.com I'm cautious. And if the JavaScript from somewhere-else.com tries to load JavaScript from who-knows-where.com I'm outta there. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
