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Re: Making your forms remember their values

Luke — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:59:00 -0000

Mark,

You're definitely right on that point - according to the w3's stats, something like 95% of browsers have Javascript enabled.

I would just caution against becoming too reliant on Javascript - while it's nice, there are still some users who choose to disable Javascript simply because they dislike it.

I agree with you from a UI point of view, however - Ajax-based forms are definitely a lot nicer to deal with from an end user point of view.

Re: Making your forms remember their values

Mark Little — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:36:33 -0000

I kind of agree with the increased dev time allthough the use of an Ajax framework would make this minimal. For the benefits of making the UI slicker and not having the page fresh I think its worth it.

I think most people have JS enabled these days. If they dont I doubt they would be able to play many of the top browser games or would at least have a reduced gaming experience in some way.

Re: Making your forms remember their values

Luke — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:20:40 -0000

While Ajax is another way to make your forms remember what was put into them, it takes a bit more development time to make sure that they work for users with and without Javascript - by using this method, it doesn't matter whether a user has Javascript enabled or not.

Re: Making your forms remember their values

Mark Little — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:54 -0000

Yeah this is the way I used to do it until I started using ajax,JQuery in particular to do my form submissions. As theres no page refresh theres no need to populate the form fields. Makes the UI a bit slicker IMO.

Mark.