[Catalyst] Meios: A Catalyst Photo Gallery Example

Christopher H. Laco claco at chrislaco.com
Sat Aug 20 00:30:34 CEST 2005


Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:26:01PM -0700, Adam Jacob wrote:
> 
>>On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>>
>>>>It doesn't, by it's very nature as Javascript.
>>>
>>>Let rephrase that. I build some fancy forms that use AJAX. What is  
>>>the uer experience for the people without javascript? If the answer  
>>>is "the forms don't work for them", then that is bad.
>>
>>Right.  The way to do that would be to change the view you return to  
>>the user; one the ajax-ified, web 2.0 style interface, the other the  
>>normal get/post mechanisms we all know and love.
> 
> 
> Any view system that can't do that automagically from a single set of
> templates is insufficiently advanced.
> 
> Watch This Space.
> 

Right.

#1. Browser sniffing on the server-side is flawed. Always.
#2. Forms [and your site] should always work without javascript. Always. 
  [Well, with the exception of hardcore Intranets]

Any deviation from those two rules almost always leads to problems.
Now client-side feature sniffing.. A O K.

-=Chris
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