Re: Taking a step back for a moment......

[Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>]

Sai Kiran wrote:
> 
> 
> > 1. Navigation
> > we don't need to plan out elaborate schemas for navigation.  Just a
> > simple one that works.  I think that we have basically all agreed that
> > we should organize navigation by task.  This makes sense, as this is how
> > people want to use websites.  I agree with Shawn Admunsun that we want
> > to make the names short and easily scannable.  I also think that it
> > should be text-based.  If we want to get fancy, we can do a javascript
> > tree expansion type thing so someone can (if they have a browser that
> > supports it) get to the page they want right away.  This wouldn't stop
> > normal users from getting there in a normal fashion though.
> >
>         I really think we should try to avoid JavaScript etc. More so
> because this is a technology developed by the browser makers. Please try
> looking at a page with pop-up layer based menu in IE 3.0 or something. It
> totally destroys the page's look. Even if we decide to do something fancy,
> let us try to avoid JavaScript and DHTML. What do people think about a
> Java Applet ?


Problem with java: Most Netscape users will be browsing with Java off,
due to Netscape's horrid instability when java is turned on.

I agree on the avoiding javascript part, though.

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