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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:11 Apr 2001 at 09:15:26
Subject:Re: JS and Amiga

Don Cox said,

> On 10-Apr-01, Neil Bothwick wrote:

>> Making it work on *your* PC doesn't make any difference to your
>> visitors.

> IMO there is a lot to be said for not using Javascript at all. It
> causes more trouble than it's worth.

I couldn't agree more.

> The heavy coding should be on the server, where you know it will work.

In theory anyway. You still have the problem that the server side
scripting generates HTML which browsers interpret differently. But the
differences here are far less than for JavaScript.

Neil



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