java/java script/ya ain't missing much

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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