Oh, those poor eCommerce sites with their precious cpu cycles. My heart bleeds for their lost mips. On Fri, 17 May 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > The theory of the Javascript submit button (at least as I understand it,) > is that it makes the client do data verification rather than the server. > For example, if you are making an online purchase, and you enter 1 too > many digits in your credit card number, the client would catch this before > the data got uploaded to the server and sent to a bank and then returned > as invalid. I still think that it's just laziness. I remember in college > that I had a professor who used Java script on his web page that was > needed for class. This was back in the days of IE3 and Netscape 3.01. As > you can imagine, it was real hard to use. Almost impossible, in fact. > Even when I explained it to him, he flat refused to replace the > Javascript. > > Now, as for those Javascript links, I think the only thing they do is > serve you those annoying popup adds. I can't stand how so many sites with > Real Audio content happily use those things. Oh, speaking of Real media, > did anybody notice how they switched to that "Real One" player, abandoned > Linux and Windows 95, and from what I hear, the new player is > inaccessible. Shows how much they care about their users! I think > somebody needs to come up with a GPL streaming format. Every audio/video > streaming format I know of is proprietary. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
