Well, I recently received a devnet newsletter, and for some reason skimmed it. I never read em, cause the sites are so full of ads I can barely understand what I’m looking at. Well I ran into a tutorial that I had often wondered, and have just started reading it. It is about javascript dropdowns dynamically changing without refresh. But then I remembered all the talk I had always heard about how Javascript was horrible and never use it. That people don’t allow it enabled, but… I think I’m wrong, or my sources are. Is it really something to fear? Was it at one point but it has changed (such as I think Flash was once something that people had to really go download a lot, where as now, they pretty much always have it… well maybe I’m wrong there too).
Should I use javascript with no regard to compliance, to lower standards? Is it itself not part of a standard I should seek…
I know thats a lot of questions, but they are all basically one, just trying to be clear in what I mean!
So what dyall think? JS, yay or nay?
oh and here is the tutorial, have yet to read past the first page:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Dynamically-Populating-Select-Menus-Client-Side/
