[geeks] now I've seen it all

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:31:31AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I was investigating the relative merits of various speakers and their
> companies for an upcoming security conference.  Out of the five or six I
> looked at only one, just _one_, had a proper web site.  The worst of
> them claimed large banks as clients and had tons of JavaScat (though not
> quite so much that I needed to read source in order to navigate to their
> "about" page).
> 
> Of course even www.counterpane.com has tons of JavaScat, though it too
> can still be navigated easily with links (and less so with lynx --
> actually it looks positively ugly with lynx, but it still works).

There's nothing wrong with Javascript provided that it is not *required* -
as is the case with counterpane's site.  That way, the user can turn it
off if they desire but those who want to use it can get pointless
prettiness.

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David Cantrell    |    Degenerate    |    http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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