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Javascript ruins a website

HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
edited April 2008 in Technology
I'm sitting here at work today with an email from my boss listing 20 or so online courses I need to take through the company learning center online. After logging into the site I manage to find where they hid the courses. Just as I go to hit my right mouse button and open up the course description pages in new windows so I can easily enroll in them all I find myself stopped by javascript.

Every link on this site uses javascript. Every single one!!! I can't right-click into a new window. Instead I have to enroll in each one THEN go back and search for the other classes and enroll in them one-at-a-time.

Each course has a course ID number associated with it. You might think you could be cool and just change the course ID in the URL bar but no, the URL parameters have nothing to do with the course numbers or anything else that is readily apparent. Yeah, I'm going to be a while enrolling in these courses.

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  • ......
    So how does this ruin the website? Sure, depending on circumstances, it is annoying, but to say the entire site is ruined by this mere design choice is a bit crazy, no?

    If you are using Firefox at work go look into the Smart Middle Click extension, it lets you open javascript links in new tabs, though judging from your post you are using Internet Explorer 6.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    edited April 2008
    So how does this ruin the website? Sure, depending on circumstances, it is annoying, but to say the entire site is ruined by this mere design choice is a bit crazy, no?

    If you are using Firefox at work go look into the Smart Middle Click extension, it lets you open javascript links in new tabs, though judging from your post you are using Internet Explorer 6.
    I work for a big multi-national corporation. We don't have Firefox. Our IE is stuck at version 6.

    We also have online courses that require you to have speakers yet we have no speakers other than the small one inside every computer.

    It is ruined because anyone who has ever used a web browser expects certain things to be true. Using the right mouse button to open things in new windows is one of those things. I can understand disabling the right mouse button on the site but why would you create a site where every link is a javascript link? Even the navigation links are javascript.
    Post edited by HMTKSteve on
  • AlanAlan
    edited April 2008
    Its a general rule to avoid javascript as much as possible when building a good compliant website. You found a extreme case I believe and there is a time when using javascript is better. Using it for everything just means that the programmer lacked knowledge most likely or was a huge javascript fan. Saying it ruins web pages is going overboard. If this was a business site I say that it was a very poor choice for the programmer to go that route.

    Using JavaScript Properly
    Post edited by Alan on
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