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Original Post: What's that browser up to?
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Ryan Lowe makes an excellent point on browsers that most of us forget - a lot:
The bottom line for me is this: web browsers are meant to show pages of text, not host elaborate client-side applications. Sure, forms are build into browsers and they are OK but there's a fine line of interactivity there. Accessibility concerns remind us how far we are actually straying from the main browser idea. If you have to wonder if your web site is accessible, it's probably not designed right for everyone else either.
Amen to that. If you end up in a swirl of JavaScript to fix something, you probably went down the wrong path quite awhile ago...
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