[thelist] AJAX Calls Working Intermittently in IE
David Menzel
DavidM at circlebroach.net
Wed Mar 12 11:53:17 CDT 2008
The biggest problem with requiring javascript, is that you lock out
users who are not using a gui based browser, such as Lynx. Whenever I
sit in front of a server without a gui, I dont want to need to go get
another pc just to check a simple page for something.
David
Joshua Olson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ben morrison
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:54 AM
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Ben Dyer
>> <radicalbender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes! That's it! I moved req.send() after req.onreadystatechange =
>>> ... and it works perfectly each time!
>>>
>>> Thank you! The Internet saves my bacon again!
>>>
>> Now the AJAX is working, but are you going to ensure the form works
>> without javascript enabled?
>>
>
> Is it even worth it? What's the proliferation of non-JS enabled browsers?
> Since JS is no longer considered a "bad thing", would we be part of the
> "problem" if we continued to allow people to hobble [0] their browsers? Are
> we just encouraging behavior that slows us down??
>
> Joshua
>
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(film)
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