[Mailman-Developers] The Philosophy of Web Use.

[Brad Knowles]

Ethan wrote:

> Can you do me a favor and let me know how these examples work for you?
>
> http://tool-man.org/examples/sorting.html

It seemed to work as the author expected, using Safari 2.x under MacOS X
10.4.x.  Using Blazer on my Palm Treo 650, although I enabled everything
(especially including JavaScript), the supposedly draggable items were
instead rendered as plain text.


This is the key problem with something like JavaScript.  It advertises
that it works, your web application can see that JavaScript is enabled,
you test it with your preferred browser(s) and everything seems okay, and
you release the code.

Only problem is, when it's put out there in the real world you discover
that it has "interesting" failure modes with other browsers that you
didn't test with.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

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