- From: Brad Neuberg <bkn3@columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:58:54 -0700
The question is, how many people using modern browsers (IE 6+, Mozilla, FireFox) regularly turn off JavaScript? Supporting browsers before IE 6 or before Mozilla isn't realistic if you want to create web apps, in my opinion. Brad At 10:34 AM 6/9/2004, Preston St. Pierre wrote: >On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 13:29:49 -0400 >Didier PH Martin <martind at netfolder.com> wrote: > > >a) Do you mean here that you prefer a declarative way to define things? > >b) that you think that packaging an XBL interpreter in javascript is > doomed because people can disable javascript. > >c) that most javascript implementation is really too slow to make it a >success. > >d) or that javascript is not powerful enough to develop such interpreter? > >B is my main concern. Due to B, I never really got in to JavaScript, so I >wouldn't know about D. C seems likely, but it really wasn't a problem in >my eyes, as users can wait the extra half second and not even notice. A >would be nice. > >But the main concern of mine is reliability. I want 100% uptime with 100% >of my clients. If this was server parsed, that would be a possibility >(well, 99.99%). Client side, this simply isn't possible.
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