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Comment by josephagoss

> The basic idea is that your app should be fully functional even if Javascript is disabled.

Honest question, is this really possible? I write webapps and Javascript + Jquery makes a lot of stuff easy, hooking into button clicks, getting text from an input box and sending AJAX requests back to my server.

Does anyone have an example of a web application with no Javascript? My next project will most likely use Golang as the server side, and I'm having a really hard time imagining how to send AJAX requests back to the server on user events (such as the user typing into a box in a real time search application) without using Javascript.

Apparently I've missed a whole area of web development if this is all possible with no Javascript. Isn't this like saying your Windows game should be fully functional without a graphics card?

I mean, on most web applications, they are that, applications. Maybe I just don't know enough, but I feel like I need a programming language in the browser to create the client side of the application, how do I fire off AJAX events when a user types something without Javascript?

I'm honestly trying to learn more here, I need examples of web apps with no Javascript, I need a book or something. Just being told I can replicate my application in html and css isn't helping.

parent josephagoss 11 years ago

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