Aaron Watters wrote:
people noted that they sometimes didn't work properly with
javascript off. I could fix this in some cases, but
the fix would involve changing a "POST" to a "GET"
and that would cause MSIE to suddenly fail when the
GET parameters get too big (and probably other
browsers too)
Aaron Watters wrote:
These days javascript is so
pervasive that graceful degradation is becoming
increasingly difficult and absolutely no fun for
web designers and programmers.
This sounds like something I'd ask about on #web on irc.freenode.net...
Those guys are pretty knowledgeable, would be
Graceful degradation is what I hope to display
as I continue to age...
But in the context of web programming it also
refers to the supposedly desirable behaviour
of web sites to "do something reasonable"
as resources are denied them by
client browsers such as cookies, applets,
javascript, etcetera
