> JavaScript is a very bad example. Who really needs this > stupid script-language? What does JavaScript do to make > surfing easier? > > There are so many websites that *ensist* on a browser with > JavaScript enabled. If you take a look at such a website > you find out that everything could have done without it. > Okay, you loose those stupid buttons that lightup on > mouseover, but I could live with that. Sorry not to agree with you, but javascript isn't only onmouseover... It's reallly an excellent complement to the html language that allows webmasters to make many nice things very simply, such as offline checking forms, decide at clicktime where to link branch you, store information in your browser so that it doesn't have to be passed again and again between the server and the browser... Js is really a must, cause more and more site rely on it to be usable. > But to get back to the problem of Wannadoo not letting > Amigas in: A good webmaster would have taken care that a > non whatever-browser can visit the website in a > non-whatever version (replace 'whatever' with JavaScript, > Java, Frames...) Well... in the world I live, they simply don't consider exotic computers (I know... alternative is better.. but). For example, I subscribed an adsl connection, when they came and installed it they wanted to set up their proprietary software (is it a mac or a pc ? )... Told them it wouldn't work. They asked me the computer and so on... and they phoned the support.. after 15 minutes of discussion the tech told me 'my collegue wants to know if you have a zx81 expansion in your amiga, he says it won't work if you don't... When I phoned wanadoo to have information on the protocol they used to 'autenticate' the connection, they told me they shouldn't have accepted to hire me an adsl connection, and suggested either I resigned it or I installed a pc (under windows :) or a macintosh... It's like that here.. maybe a good webmaster should make his web viewable with a the lynx mode of vi for palmpilots and available in 180 different languages, and html 1.0... but nobody cares what a good (according to you ) webmaster should do as long as the website is viewable with ie >3 and netscape>=3... The real webmaster won't ever correct html faults in a page generated by an automatic tool... so go figure. But in fact all that lovely debate is non sense, I just wanted to signal this site behaved strangely and that it was a big site for france, hoping that Olli or Zapek could put on their todo list (I don't mail keystone any more, as there's less feedback than here :) Phil. ____________________________________________________________ Voyager Mailing List - Info & Archive: http://www.vapor.com/ For Listserver Help: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "HELP" To Unsubscribe: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "UNSUBSCRIBE"
