[FX.php List] Ajax/LAJAX's JavaScript requirements

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks Kevin.
I didn't know that about firewalls.
And that's great advice about development practices (although for  
most client projects, I doubt I'll be able to justify developing two  
ways to accomplish the same task -- probably just the "no fancy  
scripts" way, which of course is less fun :-(.

Thanks,
-Joel

On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

>
> Few people deliberately disable JavaScript, so you're right there  
> (though
> some indeed do). However, some corporate firewalls will be  
> configured to
> strip JS from HTTP transactions as a security measure. At the end  
> of the
> day, since JS is a core component of any AJAX mechanism, you need  
> to treat
> it like any other JS functionality: always provide a fallback. In  
> fact, the
> best way to handle this is to build a framework that works as  
> advertised
> without any fancy scripts or AJAX, and then overlay that  
> functionality using
> unobtrusive scripting techniques. Graceful degradation is the end  
> result,
> and should be a primary goal of modern web development.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/