Re: Version-adaptive_documentation

[Barry Duggan]

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your feedback and concerns!

I have tested the pages with several browsers where I have disabled _javascript_.

There were no detrimental effects. The option to choose a version just didn't show up.

Note also that the entire content is shown. That is the default condition upon loading the page and is also what you get if selecting the "All" choice if scripts are enabled.

If you have tested a page with a client you have noted and had a problem, I would like to know more about it.

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Barry Duggan

---- On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:13:34 -0600 Adrian Musceac <kantooon@droiddv.org> wrote ---

On Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:40:46 EET Barry Duggan wrote:
> I have created a plan to make certain pages of our Wiki be adaptive to the
> user's GNU Radio version (or desired version) so that sections which don't
> apply would be hidden. This makes cleaner page presentations and reduces
> the clutter of unrelated information.
>

This proposed change will have the following effects:

- Usability is greatly reduced if using web clients which don't support
_javascript_ (yes some people still use clients like links and w3m from the
terminal)
- On some user setups _javascript_ is disallowed for security reasons so content
will no longer be accessible
- Breaks content indexing for some search engines

The general trend of making web pages heavily dependent on _javascript_ and thus
unusable for some of us is frankly sad and I would not have expected to see
this happen in a GNU project wiki.
Please don't break the documentation in this way.

Regards,
Adrian