[Geoserver-devel] Do we want the wicket UI to work also without javascript?

GeoServer GeoServer Developer
1

Hi,
I'm wondering whether we want our UI to be working without
javascript enabled or not.

Wicket has this concept of ajax fallback components, that is,
components that do work with ajax, but that can fall back
on a old fashioned request cycle if javascript is not enabled.

For the moment the UI has been coded using a few components
that do not without javascript, but mostly it seems just
because we did not use the equivalent fallback ones
(thought for example the namespace manager is using
the AjaxEditableLabel that has no fallback equivalent).

Soo... opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

2

-1 for non-JS support.

There are very few compelling use cases of GeoServer that do not involve JavaScript, and a JS capable browser is a shadow of a requirement compared to requiring specific JREs.

-Arne

Andrea Aime wrote:

Hi,
I'm wondering whether we want our UI to be working without
javascript enabled or not.

Wicket has this concept of ajax fallback components, that is,
components that do work with ajax, but that can fall back
on a old fashioned request cycle if javascript is not enabled.

For the moment the UI has been coded using a few components
that do not without javascript, but mostly it seems just
because we did not use the equivalent fallback ones
(thought for example the namespace manager is using
the AjaxEditableLabel that has no fallback equivalent).

Soo... opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

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-1 here as well, with similar reasoning.

-David

Arne Kepp wrote:

-1 for non-JS support.

There are very few compelling use cases of GeoServer that do not involve JavaScript, and a JS capable browser is a shadow of a requirement compared to requiring specific JREs.

-Arne

Andrea Aime wrote:
  

Hi,
I'm wondering whether we want our UI to be working without
javascript enabled or not.

Wicket has this concept of ajax fallback components, that is,
components that do work with ajax, but that can fall back
on a old fashioned request cycle if javascript is not enabled.

For the moment the UI has been coded using a few components
that do not without javascript, but mostly it seems just
because we did not use the equivalent fallback ones
(thought for example the namespace manager is using
the AjaxEditableLabel that has no fallback equivalent).

Soo... opinions?

Cheers
Andrea

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