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From: michael.brockington
Date: Oct 11, 2004 11:00AM

> Badly implemented date pickers, yes. However you _can_
> develop a date picker that only gets applied when and if
> DHTML is possible. I explained the ideas how to do that...

Unfortunatly, only applying an effect when it is _possible_ is barely related
at all to when it is wanted. By defenition, most DHTML only gets deployed on
clients that can handle it. The problem is the extra layer of a screen-reader
on top of IE (or whatever).


> You do
> not need to cut down on usability enhancements, as long as
> you check if they can be used and, in some cases, you allow
> the user to enable or disable them.

I love the 'in some cases bit'! When do you not allow the user to disable
something?

Mike


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