On 6 Oct 2007 Dave Higton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jess Hampshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> To be honest I dislike sites which rely on javascript. > A couple of years ago I bought the O'Reilly book on Javascript > (which also covers ECMAscript and Jscript). I can certainly > see the usefulness of Javascript; so can lots of web site > designers, clearly. Javascript can be very useful, but should not be essential to use a site. More so now than ever, given the large number of security holes in other browser's implementations, which has lead to many corporate security policies mandating that scripting is disabled. This has lead to an increase in the number of commerce and banking sites which work with NetSurf now that they no longer insist on javascript to function. > I think it's clear that Javascript isn't going to go away any > time soon, and it's also clear that it is in widespread use, > so Javscript support would be a substantially useful addition > to Netsurf's capabilities. We are all agreed on that. > WAP, I understand, is all but dead, so it would be a waste of effort > to add that to NS. > I don't know anything about WML. WML is what WAP sites are written in. Cheers ---Dave -- ______________________________________________________________________ David J. Ruck Phone: +44- (0)7974 108301 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________
