From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 178re3-0008PB-00 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 20:00:23 -0400 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4I00SB01510 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 20:00:28 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:00:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: java/java script/ya ain't missing much In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Oh, those poor eCommerce sites with their precious cpu cycles. My heart bleeds for their lost mips. On Fri, 17 May 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > The theory of the Javascript submit button (at least as I understand it,) > is that it makes the client do data verification rather than the server. > For example, if you are making an online purchase, and you enter 1 too > many digits in your credit card number, the client would catch this before > the data got uploaded to the server and sent to a bank and then returned > as invalid. I still think that it's just laziness. I remember in college > that I had a professor who used Java script on his web page that was > needed for class. This was back in the days of IE3 and Netscape 3.01. As > you can imagine, it was real hard to use. Almost impossible, in fact. > Even when I explained it to him, he flat refused to replace the > Javascript. > > Now, as for those Javascript links, I think the only thing they do is > serve you those annoying popup adds. I can't stand how so many sites with > Real Audio content happily use those things. Oh, speaking of Real media, > did anybody notice how they switched to that "Real One" player, abandoned > Linux and Windows 95, and from what I hear, the new player is > inaccessible. Shows how much they care about their users! I think > somebody needs to come up with a GPL streaming format. Every audio/video > streaming format I know of is proprietary. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org