[Gllug] Sainsbury's Bank with Linux: online banking followup

Jose Luis Martinez jjllmmss at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 3 09:11:45 UTC 2008


2008/9/2 Justin Perreault <justinperreault at dl-jp.com>:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:13 +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote:
>> Quoting "MJ Ray" <mjr at phonecoop.coop>:
>>
>> > Many moons ago, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
>> > I think the key thing is to use JavaScript to enhance a web interface
>> > but not to require it.
>>
>> Absolutely - I remember one web page that used JavaScript simply to
>> remind you that the man who ran the server considered it dangerous and
>> wouldn't let you browse further until you turned it off.
>
> This is the best implementation of JavaScript I have ever heard of. If
> only more sites would do this.
>
> Justin


I hope you jest, the role of a webmaster is not to lecture and
patronize his website's visitors, if anything a small footer link to a
page explaining the dangers of JavaScript is the most I would put, if
anything at all.
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