[imp] imp 3.0 - unnecessary javascript dependencies

[Scott Kearney]

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Jon,

Thanks for your response. I need to discuss this issue with some other 
people working with me on our deployment, but we may take a crack at 
producing some code that is not as javascript reliant.

I believe that there are a few things which could be changed that 
wouldn't necessarily retain 100% of Imp's functionality, but would 
enable at least basic usage of it (viewing mail, downloading 
attachments, and composing mail) without javascript.

-Scott

On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 11:34 AM, Jon Parise wrote:

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:00:46AM -0400, Scott Kearney wrote:

Is there any reason why there is so much javascript used in Imp? We are
trying to make Imp as accessible as possible to people with
disability-friendly web browsers (e.g. for the blind), and have noticed
many cases where there will be a form button that instead of actually
being a TYPE=SUBMIT button, it will be a generic button, which submits
through a javascript action. Is there any reason that this and many
other things could not be changed to the scriptless HTML equivalents?

We've accepted JavaScript as a necessary evil in order to present a
clean and friendly user interface.  We're open to non-JavaScript
alternatives where the functionality can gracefully degrade when
JavaScript is not available.

A lot of people have raised this issue in the past, but none of them
have contributed ideas (or, more importantly, code) to change the
current state of things.

At the moment, there's little motivation for we, the developers, to
invest time to finding these alternatives ourselves.

As a side note, I personally think that users constrained to using a
text-based interface use a non-web-based solution for reading their
mail (i.e. a text-based mail client).

--
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member

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