Rails has fantastic Javascript helpers, which I have immediately used
for my website.
Since some features of my website now rely 100% on Javascript being
enabled in the user's browser, I now need a way to either:
a) block the usage of the site when Javascript is disabled, or
b) display a very visible message that tells the user to enable
Javascript.
Has anybody good ideas for a plugin (or some other solution) to check if
Javascript is enabled and to then let the user know?
(I know, a good programmer would let the site work without JS as well,
but currently, I'm not there yet...)
Quoting Tom Ha <rails-mailing-list@andreas-s.net>:
Hi there,
Rails has fantastic Javascript helpers, which I have immediately used
for my website.
Since some features of my website now rely 100% on Javascript being
enabled in the user's browser, I now need a way to either:
a) block the usage of the site when Javascript is disabled, or
b) display a very visible message that tells the user to enable
Javascript.
Has anybody good ideas for a plugin (or some other solution) to check if
Javascript is enabled and to then let the user know?
There is a <noscript> tag in HTML that does what you want.
Rails has fantastic Javascript helpers, which I have immediately used
for my website.
Actually, Rails has terrible JS helpers: they encourage a poor style of
programming where JS is mixed into HTML. Generally, this is not a good
idea.
Since some features of my website now rely 100% on Javascript being
enabled in the user's browser, I now need a way to either:
a) block the usage of the site when Javascript is disabled, or
b) display a very visible message that tells the user to enable
Javascript.
The <noscript> tag will work, or you could have a message in the HTML
that your JS code will remove.
Has anybody good ideas for a plugin (or some other solution) to check if
Javascript is enabled and to then let the user know?
(I know, a good programmer would let the site work without JS as well,
but currently, I'm not there yet...)