[development] Activeselect - AJAX select boxes

AD. anton.list at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 00:57:51 UTC 2006


On 17/03/06, Derek Wright <derek at dwwright.net> wrote:

> pardon my general ignorance of AJAX and JS, but what does "degrade"
> mean in this context?  normally, i'd think "code that degrades" isn't
> something to cheer about. ;) if there's a quick 1 sentance
> explaination (or a link), i'd appreciate it.

The key is "degrades well" (or "degrades gracefully") rather than just
"degrades". ie if it is unsupported it falls back to lower tech ways
of working rather than just breaking.

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Cheers
Anton


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