[Phpmyadmin-devel] Javascript

[Tyron Madlener]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> wrote:
> Le 2011-05-20 16:24, Tyron Madlener a écrit :
>> First of all: I hope I'm not too annoying with all my
>> suggestions/questions. Otherwise let me know. My mind is always filled
>> with random ideas ;)
>>
>> I'd like to spark some discussion about noscript-support, particularly
>> after I read that it was a feature suggestion for phpMyAdmin 3 over 3
>> years ago (http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/phpMyAdmin_3).
>>
>> I don't know the numbers, but I would assume that nowadays, the
>> percentage of pma users that do not have javascript on must be very
>> low. If there's uncertainty about it, maybe we could start some
>> survey/poll on the phpmyadmin site? (I would offer myself to build it)
>>>From what I can see in the global trends, is that the amount of
>> non-javascript users has been steadily decreasing, with current
>> statistics talking about only 1-3% of internet users having javascript
>> disabled.
>>
>> It feels like a clear disadvantage to me needing to always consider
>> non-javascript users, ending up with programming every feature twice
>> where I could program twice the amount of features instead ;)
>>
>> Having said this, does pma really need noscript-support?
>
> I would say no. Anyway, looking at the development done for 3.4, the
> trend is to avoid inline js. We are now supposed to use jQuery to make
> visible a link or button that brings the user to a feature that requires js.
>
> Note that 3.3 and 3.4 have problems with this. For example, Synchronize
> should not be shown to non-js users. Clearly, testing on non-js browsers
> has not been our priority.

Oh interesting, so Synchronize doesn't work without Javascript? Does
that mean I can drop the noscript-support for the Status page? :)
I can avoid inline script, thats no problem. But I'd like to build in
some feature that only work with javascript & ajax.

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