Re: [Lynx-dev] (OT) Q: best way to hide ECMAscript-only things

[David Dorward]

On 24 Sep 2009, at 11:08, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> some of my colleagues at work were wondering how to best hide
> ECMAscript-only page elements from browsers where they don’t
> work anyway.

Add them with JavaScript, not with HTML.

> Someone else pointed out that one could just insert the elements
> into the document tree using JS.

Yes, like that.

> Others wonder if that would work
> in combination with exotic things such as Bloatzilla’s NoScript
> plugin (but then I question if the elements in question would
> work with it anyway).

If the script is blocked, the elements don't appear. Simple.

This is much better than some tricky thing to include the elements for  
all browsers, but to attempt to hide or move them if JS isn't  
available for any reason.

(And it is possible to turn JS off in any browser that supports it,  
you don't need an extension to do this).

> Another suggestion was to provide a “skip JS-only navigation”
> link; the solution for non-Lynx items on www.mirbsd.org is,
> however, slightly better I think: I’ve placed the top logo
> on the bottom of the page and move it up using CSS, so that
> Lynx users wouldn’t even need to skip it.

How ... complicated.

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David Dorward
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