Bèr Kessels wrote:
I have, personally filed the term AJAX next to Flash and DHTML. Under usefull, but too often misused and overhyped. Too often it is used just because "everyone does it".
"Wordpress does it" was apparently the reasoning in this case. :p I haven't tried it yet, but I fail to see the usefullness of browser textareas for more than two or three sentences anyway. It is probably a case of "oh, shiny!!!!1!".
Used for the sake of using it. Not that I am saying Drupal is going that way, but we must certainly be aware of it. And certainly start sticking dubious JS stuff in contrib (or even core) modules.
Anyway. the form resizer broke on my theme. It broke my quicktags and it broke one version+theme of tinyMCE. All of wich I think are not bugs in core but in my theme, module and that version of mce with the specific theme. I was told before to make a patch to switch off the JS globally. But IMO that is not the correct route. Switching on and off development stuff on a user interface is not a good option, IMO.
So, anyone here who knows how I can not have js in Drupal? Do I really need to develop a no_js.module that uses alter hooks for the forms? Or does anyone know a better route?
You can simple replace drupal.js by an empty file, I think. But I actually like some of the JS stuff, but would like to maybe switch some of them off (depending on the site). How do I do that? Cheers, Gerhard