January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
8h 45m
English
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Gotchas
A weakness of server-based web software is that it depends on user web browsers to comply with established standards.[13] Many web application developers have adopted a conservative strategy, requiring only the simplest common browser features. This attitude is particularly prevalent in the open source software community, since new browser features generally arrive first in proprietary forms, confined to particular makes of browsers on particular platforms. (For example, Javascript was initially an exclusive feature of Netscape browsers. Java support on the Macintosh has typlically lagged behind that of other operating systems). Proprietary plugins (such as Flash) may never be fully available to all client platforms.
To date, Slash requires no special browser features aside from HTTP/1.1,[14] HTML 3.2, and RFC-2109-compliant browser cookies. Individual site administrators can configure their page layouts using more advanced HTML features, but Slash itself requires only the ability to accept cookies (used for user and Author authentication) and to submit HTML forms. Unfortunately, even these minimum requirements can be problematic, sometimes in fairly recent browsers.
Instead of merely redrawing the page, all but the latest versions of Netscape irritatingly reload the page from the server when the user resizes the browser window. If the page happens to contain an HTML form, it will probably lose the content.
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