Posted by Stan McCann on 01/22/75 11:39

Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in
news:spfnu154l3vj60ilocq9mbatjenjmlqpc9@4ax.com:

> How it does it is that it breaks the old HTML dependence on HTTP,
> and a single "get page, submit page, get page, submit page"

Sorry, that's the way the web was designed to work.

> sequence. Bits of JavaScript code and a component that can retrieve

Which is a good enough reason not to use it. You run your programs on
your computer; I will run my programs on my computer. And if I don't
know you, or I've never seen any information about your program; I damn
sure ain't going to run it on my computer.

Client side scripting is, and has always been a bad idea. If it were
more limited on what it could do on someone elses computer, ok, but I
don't want my window resized, I don't want you to take away all the
buttons on the window that I am familiar with and know how to use so
that you can put some buttons in place that I don't know how to use.

Javascript is always off until I know what a page author wants to do
with it (IF I bother to look or care).

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