Re: Morfik lowered their price

"Brian Moelk" <bmoelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47575417$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Seems to me $995 is a reasonable price point. This is where they should
have been from the start.

http://www.morfik.com/

One major problem still exists however.... turn off JavaScript in your browser and try to load the site. Blank page....

I don't know if this holds true for the apps that Morfik creates, but if even the web site does not work without JS enabled, that is pretty bad. Not least of all from an SEO point of view - since to Google, www.morfik.com is now an empty site (in fact, Google only shows 4 pages on morfik.com to be indexed, and 3 of them are old and no longer exist).

In some cases it's not unreasonable to have a web app that requires JS - for example, on a company intranet, a content management system etc. However I think on *any* application and particularly web site that is 'front facing' (that is, to the general public), requiring JS is unacceptable.

That's the problem with AJAX... it is a great technology don't get me wrong, but too many people get caught up with the pretty effects and don't think of the possible problems with it (accessibility, mobile browsers, older browsers, high security policies etc).

Cheers,

Dave

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