On 15/08/2020 17:21, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 16:51:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 15/08/2020 14:50, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> Since all this can be done in the server, you need to know what the
>>> page looked like before it was selected for transmission in order to
>>> know if it has been modified by the server.
>>
>> if its php et al its GENERATED by the server.
>
> Indeed, and IIRC Javascript can be used the same way - I use a bit of PHP
> but avoid JS as, so far anyway, PHP plus HTML has let me do exactly what
> I've needed to do.
>
>
Sadly I need it ALL.  JS is mostly to patch up issues in the way
browsers work...Its just a better control over the 'user experience'.
Example being a TV viewer I built, where it was necessary on  clicking
the channel to open up an ajax call to the sever and inject the stream
into the browser, so it didn't need a page refresh, and then to
manipulate the video and sound to prevent ugliness on startup and
glitching and to shut the stream down gracefully if another channel was
selected.
These days whole sites are written in impenetrable JavaScript. By
wankers who cant code.

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