[TYPO3-dev] Revamped FORM cObj, take 2

[Patrick Broens]

Christopher Torgalson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]
> <dmitry at typo3.org> wrote:
>> Christopher Torgalson wrote:
>>  > They are quite nicely styled, but they're a bit useless--they rely
>>  > *totally* on javascript. No javascript, no form at all...
>>
>>  Who runs browser without JavaScript now? It is like using blacn-and-white monitor :)
> 
> 
> Are we talking about BE or FE? 

BE!!!! The document is about the form wizard in particular, although 
I've also added some ideas for FORM cObj, but that one should not rely 
on javascript at all. Prototype/Scriptaculous is used for drag and drop 
functionality, change sorting order of the items in the form, inline 
editing of texts like labels, changing context sensitive configuration.

Patrick
In the BE I can reluctantly agree
> (though there is no good reason in principle for the BE not to be
> accessible, but that's another debate), but in the FE that's nonsense.
> Lots of useragents such as phones and screenreaders, for example,
> don't have good (or any) javascript support, and it's not uncommon for
> people to disable javascript.
> 
> Given that the same logic transferred to a server-side language could
> build the same forms, I can't see any good reason for using javascript
> in this context.
>