[thelist] Old Browsers old Software, cut bait and move on.

[Mark Cheng]

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>[...]
>> What about being able to sort a list of previous orders by date?
>> amount? product? purchaser?  all client side.  Serve up the data in a
>> table and let the user machine worry about sorting.
>
>on a consumer site, i don't agree... too much work for the client,
>and old machines can choke on the JS... let's not forget the
>corporate environments where JS is disabled...
>

hmm, although if you are targetting ie5+browsers chances are the client
machine has a fair bit of spare capacity.  Fair point though.

>i'd always rather rely on the server for the kind of stuff, offering up a
>client-side solution only when i have control over the browser...
>

Is that ever going to happen??  control over a browser I mean.

>[...]
>> Fitt's Law??  (sorry I'm new to this and in Oz)
>

Thanks - I'll check those out.


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