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

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:58:57AM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote:
> 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.

  yes please avoid like plague building your site with such extensions

> I agree on the avoiding javascript part, though.

  Me too, and please avoid "doing something fancy" with will work
on only a couple of browser or requiring too much resources to be usable
or fast.

  thanks,

Daniel

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