[TYPO3-dev] extJS library

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Martin Kutschker
<masi-no at spam-typo3.org> wrote:
> Thomas Allmer schrieb:
>>
>> If you don't like my approach or you don't care about progressive
>> enhancement (I don't know who need it anyway? *hehe*) just ignore my posts.
>
> IMHO we don't need progressive enhancement for the BE. The BE requires
> JS anyway so we don't need any fallback. So I wouldn't use this concept
> as it'll make the overall code bigger and more complicated.

You miss the point. The BE requires js because it was not coded
'progressively' in the first place. As far as I can tell, there isn't
anything in the BE that MUST be done on the client side. And as for
making the BE bigger and more complex? I doubt that's even possible.
The BE is an incredible mishmash of terrible markup, inline js and
overly complex, inconsistent css. I have little doubt that the cleanup
of html and js required to make the BE 'progressive' would pay for
itself in ease of future maintenance alone.

Besides: as long as the BE is the way it is, TYPO3 is categorically
unable to compete in any circumstance where even a modicum of
accessibility is required.

-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/