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Website observationWebsite observationPosted Nov 3, 2004 15:32 UTC (Wed) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)Parent article: Novell: Unbending the truth
It looks like they're really trying, and then they go tossing in gratuitous Javascript use. <rant> Too damn' many websites go to JS when the right way is the most obvious and simplest: put in a hyperlink! Many folks (like me, for a random example) browse with Java & JS off, to minimize unpleasant surprises. The result is that I must either check the source to reverse-engineer the JS, or decide whether the site is worth turning it on for, with the accompanying risk that I'll forget to turn it off before visiting a malicious URL.</rant> One of these days I'll get around to hacking a ``JS for this site only'' option into Firefox. (Maybe a ``JS for this tab only'' would be good, too.)
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Website observation Posted Nov 4, 2004 22:30 UTC (Thu) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link] Where are they using JavaScript? After checking the source, I see some trivial JS for tweaking the layout, but the fancy bit where they change the color of the paragraphs as you hover over them is pure CSS; no JavaScript involved. It's quite a handy little trick, really. Check meyerweb.com, specifically the css/edge link, for full details on how to do it. This is the same guy that got me really interested in the true potential of CSS; it's quite eye-opening, really. Note, though, that most of the tricks demonstrated here only work properly in Mozilla, or a Mozilla-derived browser; IE, especially, requires nasty hacks to the CSS descriptor files to work acceptably. Incidentally, viewing the Novell article in a browser with JS disabled results in the side menu going bye bye; that seems to be about the gist of it. Really, though, even that could be trivially handled using CSS, so somebody's just lazy. Then again, they're probably just using a CMS that doesn't give them much choice.
Website observation Posted Nov 11, 2004 21:35 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335) [Link] One of these days I'll get around to hacking a ``JS for this site only'' option into Firefox.I used to be a Firefox fanboy, but the latest Konqueror kicks ass. It supports the feature you mention.
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