[Mailman-Developers] The Philosophy of Web Use.

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 6 July 2006 23:05:46 -0400 emf <i at mindlace.net> wrote:

> You are, I assume, OK with the server doing whatever sort of dynamic
> foofaraw it likes to generate a given web page; what makes server side
> manipulations inherently superior to client-side manipulations?

It's simple. You know what you can do on the server, you don't know what 
you can do in the client.

The site has to be able to work without client side scripting, so it would 
be useful to disable it in Mailman.

One reason we might choose to switch off client side scripting is so that 
we can support our 20,000 odd users without having to worry about which 
view of Mailman they're seeing. We'll probably resist that, but our front 
line support would probably prefer a single interface for everyone - and 
that would necessarily be the java free interface.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex