Re: Taking a step back for a moment......
- From: Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>
- To: Sai Kiran <ch98086 che iitm ac in>
- Cc: Gnome Web List <gnome-web-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Taking a step back for a moment......
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:58:57 -0700
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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