usability issues with JavaScript (fwd)

[jn@tommy.demon.co.uk (John Nissen)]

Accessibility issue here?

Forwarded message follows:

>Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:21:24 -0600
>Reply-To: Julie Jensen <Julie.Jensen@USAA.COM>
>Sender: "ACM SIGCHI WWW Human Factors (Open Discussion)" <CHI-WEB@ACM.ORG>
>From: Julie Jensen <Julie.Jensen@USAA.COM>
>Subject:      usability issues with JavaScript
>To: CHI-WEB@ACM.ORG

>Hi,
>
>Our company currently designs for both Java Script and Non-Java Script
>enabled browsers (for example, we have mouse-over definitions, but also
>provide that content in a static glossary page for users without
>JavaScript). We are considering changing our browswer accomodation from
>Netscape 3.x and IE 3x to Netscape and IE 4.x browswers, primarily because
>of the perceived benefits of Java Script. (Incidentally, we have checked our
>server logs and recognize that this will not cause much strife to our target
>audience).
>
>I'd like to know the tradeoffs of JavaScript-ing (especially if we don't
>have a non-Java-Script version of that content). What are the associated
>risks and tradeoffs?  How is download speed effected? is it always an
>improvement to conduct calculations/error checking on the client side? any
>potential usability issues? Are there any warning signals that I should be
>detecting now?  We plan to build our usage guidelines for JavaScript (based
>on which scripts/functionality test successfully), but I'm wondering what
>usability issues may exist.
>
>If you could please forward your ideas, concerns, and nightmares to me, I'd
>be glad to summarize them for everyone.  Thanks,
>
>Julie
>
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>Julie Jensen
>Julie.Jensen@USAA.Com
>Usability Specialist
>The views expressed in this e-mail are mine,
>all mine, and are not necessarily USAA's.
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Cheers from Chiswick,

John
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