- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:42:20 +0000
- To: 'wai-ig list' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Adam Cooper wrote: > First, Javascript is not a practice. It is a ubiquitous, useful, and > enduring scripting language that is accessibility neutral. WCAG includes To be pedantic, Javascript isn't a scripting language; it is the combination of one (Ecmascript) and various browser and document models. Strictly speaking it refers to those models as in early versions of scriptable Netscape browsers, although it is now used for any combination of Ecmascript and such object models. It is not a technically precise term. It is, in fact, the object models that are the difficult bit and prevent the common text only browsers and netsurf implementing "javascript". The netsurf road plan for javascript also mentions the need for internal structures that support efficient dynamic modification of the document and its style sheets (many javascripted sites need a lot of processing power - it can now take 30 seconds to a minute to get a page up on my old, 350MHz, machine). -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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