[thelist] AJAX graceful degradation (was: AJAX on Safari)

[Jan Brasna]

>>>> That's pretty ancient and has IMO no idea about XHR.
>>> How do you handle it when one of your audience members is using such a 
>>> browser?
>> Graceful degradation.
> That's the label; I'm curious about the implementation.

Have it fully functional without this technology and then add the 
topping. It's called Hijax.

<http://ajaxian.com/archives/hijax-graceful-degration>

> Do you keep a whitelist/blacklist/greylist scheme

Oh no, please, no sniffing ;) It's so yesterday... You should have some 
internal profile of support (like the chaps at Y! do have 
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/articles/gbs/gbs.html) but you won't need 
any "active" defense. Degradation and fallbacks rule.

-- 
Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net