JavaScript and CGI: General questions

[Tim Wunder]

I disagree, making an interface simple is one thing, to hide the details of 
what goes on from the great unwashed masses, is well, something else 
altogether. 

The automatic transmission is there to provide the human an easy means of 
shifting gears, not to obscure the fact that gear shifting needs to be done. 
MSIE's security slider is there to obscure what gets done. "don't you worry, 
there, little user, just slide that there thingy to "Secure" and 
everything'll be just fine... you can trust us, heck, we're Microsoft, we'll 
protect you from that nasty ol' Innernet" Then, when you get into the details 
of the settings, it's darn near impossible to figger out what the hell 
setting does what. Yuck.

Disabling javascript in Mozilla, Opera, Netscape 4x, 6x, 7x and Konqueror is 
fairly straightforward. With IE, well, it's not so simple it seems.

Regards, 
Tim


On Sunday 21 July 2002 11:21 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> If we think about IE as the internet vehicle of the masses, then the design
> of IE makes sense. For example, my daughter wanted to buy a Corolla with
> a stick shift instead of an automatic transmission.  There were only 5
> such cars in a seven state area in new car dealerships. We had to order
> one from the factory.
> Joel
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:38:48PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > Hmmm, I thought there was scripting controls in there somewhere...As I
> > don't have IE around here, I can't look to see what I was thinking of. I
> > must say, however, that IE's security preferences settings have got to be
> > the most non-user friendly settings I've ever seen. Except, of course, if
> > you want to use the goofy-ass little slider thing to set security (oohh,
> > I think "medium" security is what I need... what ever that is...).
> >
> > On Sunday 21 July 2002 10:23 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > I have wandered around in Tools/Internet Options/Advanced.  There are
> > > some options about reporting script errors but nothing about turning
> > > javascript off.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:58:06PM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > > Somewhere in the, what is it..., tools, preferences, security,
> > > > something like that...
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > > Tim
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:04 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > > > I just tried out my javascript on two NT machines with IE 5.5. One
> > > > > worked fine. The other seemed to ignore javascript completely. I
> > > > > looked but couldn't see anywhere IE could be configured to ignore
> > > > > javascript.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know if this can be done? If so, how.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Joel
> > > > >
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