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Re: OT: Web Standards



on Tue, Feb 19, 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> > and, perhaps worst of all, sites that abandon HREF tags in favor of
> > javascript event handlers that are functionally identical, aside from
> > breaking if javascript is disabled.  The entire concept of "graceful
> > degradation" appears to have been forgotten.
> 
> Which is completely insane, the only time I ever see this is for stupid
> things like tracking where people go on a website, 

...or forcing users to enable javascript, thus allowing the site to
pollute your environment with pop-(up|under|over|sideway) javascript
atrocities and other abominations.  Datagathering's certainly part of
the picture.

Me?  I just leave and don't walk back.

Peace.

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