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by graycat 4174 days ago
For my site, I'm just going for "traditional web pages".

Sure, it did occur to me that I could program my site so that the user saw only one URL and that URL would keep changing as appropriate for the user's dialog. A few minutes after I noticed that possibility, I gave it up. Sure, with that possibility, maybe the big deal would be write nearly all the 'logic' in JS to run on the client, with a lot of AJAX threads, using the server as a remote database or some such. Okay, if you want to do that. I'm not sure I've seen many such Web sites. Maybe someday I will want the architecture of my site to be like that, but for now I'm staying with tradition.

And for using a lot of JS on the client, I'd be concerned about the ability of a lot of advanced JS to do what I wanted, reliably, on all the mobile to desktop computers in the world; instead I just want to send some simple HTML, a little CSS, and maybe some minimal JS that Microsoft writes for me, which will be okay, I hope.

Okay, good: As long as I'm staying with a traditional Web site architecture, without JS I'm not missing much. Good to know. I'll conclude the same about version n + 1 of CSS.

Gee, I'm learning!