I’m a fairly regular user of the twitter web front-end, and of Facebook. Both of these have tremendously wide audiences and are hugely popular. Twitter recently attracted a bit of negative press from the technical community for replacing the old, fairly standard URL structure with one that uses ‘hashbangs’ and is fully dependent upon Javascript to serve the correct content. But I’ve another more user-centred complaint about Twitter (and Facebook) relying heavily on Javascript for fundamental parts of their apps (e.g. the ability to tweet, and ability to comment on stuff). That is the removal of the ability to ‘refresh’ or ‘resubmit’ a request…
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Archive for the ‘Javascript’ Category
A problem with forms submitting using AJAX: how to resubmit?
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Does your website still need to be functional with Javascript disabled or unsupported?
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010We have recently been reviewing the amount of development time spent on projects, and have identified one area where a fair chunk of extra time is spent for relatively little gain: Ensuring that web sites are 100% functional with Javascript disabled. The general concensus on the web is that year on year, the number of people (even those technical in nature that browse w3schools) with javascript disabled is falling – but is this a decent reason to consider removing the true graceful degradation that most front end developers have been obsessed with for the last few years?
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