- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:35:16 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
RUST Randal wrote: > It is my understanding that Javascript CAN be used for Level 1 compliance. I hope not. I think that the site always has to be useable without it. It was priority 1 (item 6.3) in the 1999 guidelines. Scripting is banned for security reasons in many places, as well as well as requiring expensive speech browsers. > > <input type="button" id="print" name="print" javascript: > onclick="window.print();" /> This is mangled HTML and a dead button as far as I am concerned; there is no fallback. There shouldn't be a javascript: (generally there never should be, as events can always, I think, do the same as that pseudo URL), but that doesn't avoid the problem that you have a button that does nothing when scripting is off. Also, from a general usablity point of view I think it is bad to duplicate functions that are built into the browser. The result tends to be a different way of doing them on every site. Moreover, at least some versions of NS4 are not HTML 4 aware for input elements and insist on their being inside forms.
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