Javascript support

[Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev]

Hello,

I am creating a website that is intended to be very portable and viewable
by a range of different devices. I have some javascript code in it, but
now I was thinking if it is a standard and supported by every device.
I was talking to people in the field and I have heard that javascript is
not supported fully by PDA browsers, but I have always thought that
javascript is as HTML, a clear standard that has to be supported by all
graphic browsers.
Can anyone confirm that javascript is not fully supported by PDA or
SmartPhone browsers?

Thanks,
Stefan

[David Dorward]

Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev wrote:

Can anyone confirm that javascript is not fully supported by PDA or
SmartPhone browsers?

None of the browser on my PDA, the browser on my phone, nor one of the many
graphical browsers I have on my workstation support JavaScript at all.
Another graphical browser I have supports very little JavaScript. Then
there are a number of text browsers, and robots such as GoogleBot to
consider. Not to mention browsers which support JavaScript but let the user
turn it off. Or proxy servers which filter the JavaScript out before it
reaches the browser.

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David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev]

Wow, so it turns out javascript is not very portable, is it?
Do you know if any alternative exists that can replace the functionality
of javascript on those browers (i.e. I change a select value and only an
image gets update, not the whole webpage)?

Thanks,
Stefan

On Mon, 23 May 2005, David Dorward wrote:

Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev wrote:

Can anyone confirm that javascript is not fully supported by PDA or
SmartPhone browsers?

None of the browser on my PDA, the browser on my phone, nor one of the many
graphical browsers I have on my workstation support JavaScript at all.
Another graphical browser I have supports very little JavaScript. Then
there are a number of text browsers, and robots such as GoogleBot to
consider. Not to mention browsers which support JavaScript but let the user
turn it off. Or proxy servers which filter the JavaScript out before it
reaches the browser.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[chotiwallah]

1. html is quite well standardized, and you can't do much without it
2. the computer you control best is the server

that's why you should stick to server generated html (using php for
instance). which involves a trip back to the server for every change -
that's the drawback.
javascript is good for anything that is not crucial to the functioning
of your site, but for nothing else.

micha

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev wrote:

Wow, so it turns out javascript is not very portable, is it?
No, it turns out that you have not yet learnt how to use client-side
JavaScript without comprising the usability of a Web document ...
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.... and that you did not bother to read the FAQ before posting.
PointedEars

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gueorguiev Stefan Gueorguiev wrote:

Wow, so it turns out javascript is not very portable, is it?
No, it turns out that you have not yet learnt how to use client-side
JavaScript without comprimising the usability of a Web document ...
[Top post]

.... and that you did not bother to read the FAQ before posting.
PointedEars