[Search-l] Browser Test

[Markus Petz]

>While I do agree that ideally the search should work without javascript,
>I would have to say that given that for 99.9% of all people who attempt
>it, it works fine, this seems of low priority to me to fix.  I don't
>think it is "dumping the whole idea".
>
>Having said that, I would be very supportive of changing it so that it
>degrades more gracefully.  (i.e. for people without javascript, it could
>simply lose some functionality instead of not working at all).

JS is ok if there is someone who writes it for all existing browsers and 
checks it on any new version of any browser. Why do you go for 99.9% with 
lots of hassle when you can have 100% without special care? Currently i 
simply can't use it since it DOESN'T WORK on my browser. Simple HTML would 
have worked. See what i mean?
Additional info: tried with MSIE 5 on my desktop machine here, doesn't work 
either.


>totally agree, the .js stuff makes wikia different (which is nice) and 
>also really coll.  but i do totally agree that it needs to degrade nicely 
>(more nicer?? :-p)

Sorry, but if a search engine (or any website) has to be "cool" and "nice" 
then i strongly suspect it has mayor flaws hidden behind the fancy skin. A 
search engine is a tool to find me webpages, no more.

 >I do agree with removing unnecessary stuff, but for now, the Javascript
>is pretty necessary as I understand the situation.

...then i don't understand the situation. Seems to me like one of these 
situations where technicians tell me "it has to be like it is and it's 
going to stay, you will adapt!". Where i clearly see that it is flawed like 
it is and i know that it can easily be fixed by simplyfication but i have 
no power whatsoever to change the misery.
So what does the JS do which makes the site differ from other search 
engines and is therefore absolutely necessary (and that page should have 
only the absolute necessary on it)?