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Posted by Rik on 02/22/07 16:36
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:13:14 +0100, Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> As others have said, you can do it with javascript, but many users have
>> javascript disabled.
>
> Is that your opinion, or your experience? Seriously, I am curious to
> know
> your basis for saying this, because my experience is quite the opposite:
> the vast majority of users run with Javascript enabled, and the typical
> web
> surfing experience is severly reduce without it.
It all depends on you audience offcourse. A corporate for mainly business
to business communication will have a lot more users with javascript
turned off, no Flash etc, while a you typical community website for teens
or something will have the vast majority with the whole shebang enabled.
The question wether that 'the typical web surfing experience is severly
reduced without it' all depends on the surfer, there is no 'typical'
internet user. Usually, when it does break, it because of bad design, not
because it's impossible to get the functionality without it.
Fact is, that everything the users sees must work in one way or another.
The users can see the forms without javascript, so they should be able to
use them without javascript too. There's no problem in added functionality
for the people with javascript, often you can skip a few forms, procide
better feedback etc. It's all about a gracefull degrade.
Then again, for this particular example, maybe the OP should state _why_
the 2 forms are needed. It's hardly ever necessary to use 2 forms like
this that have to be submitted as one. Could be that's more a HTML/design
question though.
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Rik Wasmus
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