Re: Re: supported browsers

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:49:26 +0100, Michael Zeltner  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Alexander Limi wrote:
>> a) XmlHttpRequest
>> b) contentEditable/Midas (in-browser editing
>>  and so should not be considered fully capable browsers. Plone will  
>> depend  more and more on these features in the coming versions, and  
>> although I  know that at least Opera is getting them, we shouldn't  
>> pretend to work  perfectly in those browsers until they have the  
>> necessary feature set.
>
> what does that mean? *depending* on javascript? no alternative way to do  
> the same thing? is there no way to check if the browser has  
> xmlhttprequest and enable the feature if it's there? i know midas does  
> that.

No, but people complaining about "the up/down arrows reloads the page  
every time on my Mac, it doesn't do that on my PC" should accept that as  
the reason. Everything should work and degrade - it will just not be as  
convenient.

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