So, by your estimation, Suraj, we should forget about accessibility, interoperability, search engine optimization, mobile devices, and printing the web? You see, it’s not all about backward compatibility, but simply compatibility, period.
You view seems pretty short-sighted for someone who has “adapted.”
Gooooooogle serves a capable non-AJAX GMail solution to user agents that do not support JavaScript. A better example (staying in the same family of apps) is Google Docs.
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Rob Lammers
Sorry, I just couldn’t let that one go.
A hack is when you exploit rendering flaws in a browser to display alternative code. This is a problem, because you never know how future browsers will interpret it (as everyone found out in IE7).
Conditional Comments, first and foremost… are just comments. Any browser that’s not expecting them will never render them any other way. This makes them a powerful tool in building sites and it’s foolish to overlook them.
Despite your personal feelings, not everything that’s good for Microsoft is bad for everyone else.
I always try to design pages and even JavaScript is used, it’s used rather as extra functionality for existing page. But many people don’t understand it and when you disable JavaScript in your browser you cannot use site at all – you cannot order or buy something in shop because it was designed, that javascript is needed for such actions as adding product to cart.
Unfortunately more and more sites use javascript as something that is needed – in google you won’t login to your account if you disable JavaScript…
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Back to the ArticleSuraj Bharath
By designing for people that refuse to move forward with everyone else we’re holding everybody else back! Adapt or die :/
Aaron Gustafson
So, by your estimation, Suraj, we should forget about accessibility, interoperability, search engine optimization, mobile devices, and printing the web? You see, it’s not all about backward compatibility, but simply compatibility, period.
You view seems pretty short-sighted for someone who has “adapted.”
Murat Isik
Gooooooogle serves a capable non-AJAX GMail solution to user agents that do not support JavaScript. A better example (staying in the same family of apps) is Google Docs.
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Rob Lammers
Sorry, I just couldn’t let that one go.
A hack is when you exploit rendering flaws in a browser to display alternative code. This is a problem, because you never know how future browsers will interpret it (as everyone found out in IE7).
Conditional Comments, first and foremost… are just comments. Any browser that’s not expecting them will never render them any other way. This makes them a powerful tool in building sites and it’s foolish to overlook them.
Despite your personal feelings, not everything that’s good for Microsoft is bad for everyone else.
Marcin Nabiałek
I always try to design pages and even JavaScript is used, it’s used rather as extra functionality for existing page. But many people don’t understand it and when you disable JavaScript in your browser you cannot use site at all – you cannot order or buy something in shop because it was designed, that javascript is needed for such actions as adding product to cart.
Unfortunately more and more sites use javascript as something that is needed – in google you won’t login to your account if you disable JavaScript…