Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero said... |> They should also work if JavaScript is not available. Links |> should be links - not JS calls! | |JS should be avoided, some browsers do not support it, some people |just turn it off to avoid the pain, links are links and opening |windows as the html coders want is not what i would could say nice, |mainly cos they can not cover all font types, screen layouts, etc |etc. So please, can anybody show me a JS that is really useful (aka no |other way to do it) and works always? I don't mind JS as an add-on. But it should be only that - an add-on. And it needs to be clean, portable JS that won't crash old browsers. |> |* The pages should be easy to bookmark and the URLs should not be too |> | long. This means that frames are forbidden, and the systems that |> | generate dynamic contents using horribly long URLs should also be |> | avoided (see the bad examples from Corel below). I should have interjected here that frames aren't necessarily forbidden, but they do take extra effort to do right. And you have to provide for people who don't have them. |Yes, cos if I post an URL to a friend and it says page.php?id=5 it |says nothing, when anim_tut.php says a lot more. Yes, I know, I can |describe the link to my friend, but I can also post the wrong one, or |just send my friend to a garbage page (you know, some people are in |joke mode always), so if the links says something, better. Agreed. Ideally, both should work. Not familiar with PHP delivery, tho, so I don't know if that works. And frankly, I'm all for static pages as much as possible. Use the extras only when you *need* to. Otherwise, again. extra design time up front saves wear and tear. I recently redid a bunch of scripts I have for a site to completely separate the page definition from the generated content. Even with basic perl CGIs you can do this. |> And while I know this is a mind-boggling concept, we should |> make sure the pages work even if there is no image delivery. | |Guess how some people searching a given page browse: without images. |Once you have found it, and if images are needed, you load them. And |sometimes not at all, searching download places with wget and text |browser when ssh to another machine is the last case I have meet (and |yes, it was faster than local, go tell router configs). Ayup. And there are folks who use text browsers - even to read about graphics programs! -Miles
