Web Browsers with Javascript?

[Janina Sajka]

But it is not unique in this ability. And, it makes assumptions about 
available resources client side. So, I reject that js is somehow necessary 
for such things as you describe. Yes, I know, I hear this argument all the 
time. It comes down to large sites wanting to offload cycles to the 
client, rather than supporting larger capacity servers and do the work 
server side. But this is not a path to device independence, and is, in my 
view, a false economy.

 On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I've seen a lot of java script in forms as well; it is a good means of
> validating user input before it is shipped off to the host again.  I don't
> think java script is necessarily so bad, I just wish some of the text-only
> browsers' developers would consider looking into supporting it. Java is
> publically available, isn't it?
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:
> 
> > It's too bad there are no text-mode w3 browsers with some form of
> > JScript interpreter.  The script is not just used to animate images.
> > I've encountered instances where it's used to pre-process user input on
> > forms.
> >
> > Not sure what my school is doing.  When I was there, JavaScript
> > had
> > yet to be invented.  Pascal was the "teaching language".  If a Windows
> > user asks "how do I learn to program", I even suggest starting with
> > HTML and JavaScript.  With IE or Navigator, you have a ready-made
> > programmiong environment.  One can do all the basics in JavaScript:
> > pattern matching (yes, it's full 'regular expressions'), loops, if-else,
> > switch(), arrays, user-defined functions, etc, with
> > c-like syntax, but, without those pesky pointers:).  In my employment
> > situation, I use JScript in some of my w3 content.
> >
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jan
> > 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> >
> > > Same here, cs101 is html and java script.
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:12:49PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > > > None that I am personally aware of. Which really is too bad because colleges
> > > > are pushing the java script thing.
> > > > I don't know about the colleges in other places but around here they think
> > > > Java script is hot stuff.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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