I think JS has its place and one that comes to mind is in parsing forms
input prior to a GET or POST. What is wrong with the browser being made
to perform some attempt at ensuring reasonably clean input to CGI scripts
instead of making the CGI do all the work.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ash Nallawalla wrote:
> > From: Rachel Polanskis
>
> > All I know is, javascript is evil and does nothing that well
> > written HTML can provide. Then again, finding someone who
> > knows what well written HTML is can be a problem these days.
>
> Not HTML on its own. HTML + CGI for sure. I fully agree that using
> Javascript for a menu button in Ikea's example is unnecessary. But we
> can forgive a design-oriented company for focussing on appearance and a
> minimalist site design so reminiscent of its own products.
>
> The problem is that Ikea also missed the opportunity to be useful to
> those who *can* handle Javascript. Other than the name and picture of
> the object, I get no other information, such as dimensions, for
> starters. I would have to go to the local franchise operation (or use
> the phone) to find out more.
>
>
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