Re: Replacement Email Client
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:15:46 PM Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:43:43 -0400
>
> Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> > [1]I used to read slashdot regularly, and on slashdot, the front page
> > had a bunch of news stories and a poll. The poll was written as a
> > vanilla HTML form. If you participated in the poll, it would send you
> > to a new instance of the home page, because a form *must* load a new
> > page. Doing that would lose my place, showing a new set of stories,
> > even if I hadn't finished reading the ones on the previous instance.
>
> It doesn't have to be like that. Nearly all of my web applications just
> use the one page, though of course it does have to be reloaded after a
> submit. Anything I want to be persistent, I need to arrange through
> hidden controls, appearing as parameters in the reloaded page. If
> someone is showing you a large number of random entries on a page, then
> of course it may be too much trouble to do this, but it is certainly
> possible.
Is what you describe doing something you do on a web page or in an email?
>
> I do use the very occasional smidgen of JS to replace things that have
> been left out of HTML, such as making a radio button group invoke a
> submit when changed, but on the whole I believe client-side scripting
> to be the work of the devil.
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