{"id":636,"date":"2009-07-05T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-07-05T01:50:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T05:50:21","slug":"javascript-and-dead-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/javascript-and-dead-frogs\/","title":{"rendered":"JavaScript and Dead Frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>There is a debate at work right now. Granted, it is a bit ideological, but it is one of those classic web developer debates we feel compelled to return to every couple of years:<\/p>\n

Should we expect our users to have JavaScript enabled?<\/p>\n

Perhaps more importantly, what should we do when they don’t?<\/p>\n

Ever since Google Maps ripped open the possibilities of web-based development (with turn-by-turn directions no less), we have been stuck with this bizarre requirement: JavaScript. Sure, it makes the web go round, but I still have nightmares of trying to get the University of Utah labs to upgrade to Flash v7, and our web analytics show a stunningly high level of Netscape v4.<\/p>\n

Right now I am building a fancy fan-dangled address widget for the Association (as fancy as an address widget can be), but through this process am also authoring\/encoding into existence a fairly large number of front-end standards for our new Java\/Spring architecture. Of course we are required to have some “lo-fi” version of what ever Dojo-steroided-monster I create, but when I ask my peers what possible message I could place between some <noscript> tags, they typically respond with a string of expletives.<\/p>\n

Leave it to my colleague Patrick to find the perfect solution: A gentle message from mibbit<\/a> that gets right to the point.<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/a><\/p>\n

I kid you not. They are that awesome. I would tell you to go check it out yourself, but you would have to disable your JavaScript to see the message and I don’t want to be responsible for any more frogs. Consider this a public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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