OT: newegg alternatives

[Joseph Sinclair]

I think you're confusing Java and JavaScript, which have no connection whatsoever.
Java is used extremely rarely in the UI layer of the web.  It's huge in the server layer, but if you see Java in the web browser, it's a rare thing indeed.
JavaScript is used extremely heavily, and will become vastly *more* prevalent as HTML5 grows because it's the only dynamic UI language for HTML5.
JavaScript, unfortunately, does not have native accessibility support.


On 11/14/2011 10:12 AM, Stephen wrote:
> I can see that html5 will allow the heavy reliance on java to lessen.
> 
> but for now its hugely prevalent in the web, and i don't think that's
> going to change to much until html5 gets a better adoption rate.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Technomage Hawke
> <technomage.hawke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> java presents some more specific problems for me as well. there are sites that don't bother to turn on the accessibility modules in java (which is most of them) causing me to get a "blank scroll area" whenever I land on them. I have even tried braille output on those sites only to get nothing. between java and flash, I am one very frustrated net user. as for spam, I �use gmail's filter routines to auto-delete anything I don't want. it certainly keeps my mail volume from getting outrageous.
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>
>>>> On Nov 13, 2011 9:53 PM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>>>>> I first heard of newegg via PLUG many years ago. I've been mostly happy
>>>>> with company, but I'm tired of not being able to navigate the site without
>>>>> enabling javascript.
>>>
>>> AFAICT, JS is pretty much *required* for large parts of the WWW as it
>>> currently exists. �Blame this on the marketing people ("We want to track
>>> *everything*!") and people who want to do all kinds of Cool Web 2.0 Things
>>> even when they're not useful. �I have to turn JS on for my phone company's
>>> site to pay my phone bill. �My bank's site is just as bad; no JS, no accounts
>>> page.
>>>
>>>>> TigerDirect is out because of spammy messenging.
>>> From: Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com>
>>>> I don't know about JavaScript, but have you tried mwave?
>>>
>>> If you buy anything from mwave, they'll put you on a mailing list, and you'll
>>> get spam every few days. �At least it's reasonably easy to unsubscribe.
>>>
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