On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:15:46 PM Joe wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:43:43 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > [1]I used to read slashdot regularly, and on slashdot, the front page > > had a bunch of news stories and a poll. The poll was written as a > > vanilla HTML form. If you participated in the poll, it would send you > > to a new instance of the home page, because a form *must* load a new > > page. Doing that would lose my place, showing a new set of stories, > > even if I hadn't finished reading the ones on the previous instance. > > It doesn't have to be like that. Nearly all of my web applications just > use the one page, though of course it does have to be reloaded after a > submit. Anything I want to be persistent, I need to arrange through > hidden controls, appearing as parameters in the reloaded page. If > someone is showing you a large number of random entries on a page, then > of course it may be too much trouble to do this, but it is certainly > possible.
Is what you describe doing something you do on a web page or in an email? > > I do use the very occasional smidgen of JS to replace things that have > been left out of HTML, such as making a radio button group invoke a > submit when changed, but on the whole I believe client-side scripting > to be the work of the devil.
