On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Michael Gold wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:16:34 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The reasonable default is to not display the useless messages at all. > > If for some reason you actually want to see them, you can either > > enable javascript, munge the CSS yourself, or view the source. > > Disabling stylesheets is an easy workaround (in Iceweasel: View / > Page style / No style). > > I agree that hiding the messages is a reasonable default, but I > think it's a bad idea to show a link that won't actually work. Would > you be willing to accept a patch that improves this behaviour?
I'd consider it, but it certainly sounds like a lot of extra work and code for what is at most a cosmetic issue, and pretty typical one if you wander around without javascript enabled. [After all, if you're using iceweasel, you can pretty trivially enable javascript for bdo and only bdo using noscript or similar.] > > The default for people without javascript is to show all of the > > extra information... did you actually test this? > > Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that the link has no > effect when JS is disabled; I didn't test with JS enabled to see > what information would be shown or hidden. That's fine, but there are lots of things which aren't going to work when you disable javascript. [And honestly, the set of things is going to get larger and larger.] I'm always willing to adjust defaults to make the page useable for browsers and people without javascript and or CSS support, but not at the expense of cripiling functionality or excessive bits of code. Don Armstrong -- What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for someone more interesting. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
