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nextBBS direction: please give your input
05-20-2008 at 03:30 AM
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{1288.6946}The General wrote: I think a rewrite for the reason of relying on javascript. Not everyone has, or wants, an iphone. Those with BlackBerrys and most normal phones do not have perfect support for Javascript; I deliberately turn off javascript on my BB when using it over-the-air due to the extra rendering time required. In fact, even for computer browsers basing sites largely on javascript is a bad idea; It lags badly, takes a long time to load and has a habit of crashing browsers.
All very good points. On the topic of mobile devices I think that this should be a non-issue. In my opinion, even with bigger displays, phone should not be used to browse non-optimized web sites. If you wish to make your site accessible to mobile devices, you need to go beyond the Javascript issue and offer a fully alternate set of pages that fit a phone screen. This would be one of the things offered in a reworked version. On the topic of Javascript slowness Having now a few years of experience coding Javascript, I have come to realize what was not obvious to me at first: many web sites give Javascript a bad name by abusing it and not caring about sending 100's of KB of code to their users' browsers. It's a mistake that can be easily avoided. A beginner's mistake, that I myself made.
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