Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_TreeMenu-1.0 (stable)Released.
| From: | Richard Heyes | Date: | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:52:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] HTML_TreeMenu-1.0 (stable)Released. | ||
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Michael Dransfield <mike@blueroot.net> wrote:
> Personally I think that using DHTML in PEAR exts is not a problem
> _as_long_as_ people write it for MODERN browsers (eg v.5+). It should
> DEGRADE for other browsers, showing the same information and still allowing
> browsing of the site. TreeMenu can degrade by showing all of the trees
> open by default. If someone decides to extend the class later on so that
> it 'works' in NS4 then good for them, personally I dont concider rewriting
> everything else again worthwile just for the 0.01% of the _public_ that
> actually uses the bloody thing.
>
> I think that we should say that any DHTML being contributed to PEAR should
> work on all modern browsers and degrade in text based ones... Thats not too
> hard is it?
Whether code is compatible for all browsers, or a particular subset is
really
down to the author. Since multiple packages with same purpose are ok in PEAR,
I don't see this as a problem.
--
Richard Heyes
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