[drupal-support] AJAX and Drupal

[Carlos Rivero]

On 6/6/05, Franz Iberl <f.iberl at amazonas-box.de> wrote:
> Hallo Carlos,
> 
>   ...
> >> When I started with Drupal, it was one of the very few CMS working in
> >> all features (especially admin) with "Javscript OFF". While I
> >> understand that there are features in AJAX some people do like, I hope
> >> Drupal core and main modules will stil not depend on any JS
> >> functionality.
> > I'm just curious why do you need it with out JS ?
> 
> I guess not everybody is eager to discuss it here ;-) but I try a short
> answer. Its a matter of privacy, security and, yes, comfort.
> 
> - While JS can be done securely, of course, I consider it - e.g. - a
> "damage-multiplicator" if something is going wrong.
> 
> - JS can deliver more information about the client (thats my computer)
> to the (foreign) server than Html alone.
> 
> - Surfing the web with "JS on" allows "dumb" sites to modify my
> browsers (mouse functions changed, fixed windows etc.) more than I want
> to tolerate. There are browsers which can be configured with some
> "granularity" about this, but why bother - server side scripting is
> enough for me ;-)
oh OK! I see your point.... thanks for answering..
> 
> (some advertising goes away w/o JS as well - but thats not the main
> point).
> 
> Servus
>    Franz
> 
> 
>