Make sure you do something to prevent breaking the back button, whatever you do.
On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Oskar Krawczyk wrote:
> How about doing it the other way round? Start with the non-JS page that
> redirects you to the JS-heavy version (using window.location not META
> redirect).
>
> O.
>
> On 1 Jun 2010, at 23:56, Jay wrote:
>
>> I always try to write websites using progressive enhancement -- but a
>> recent project I'm working on requires quite a bit of AJAX DOM
>> injection and element processing in Javascript. I've made quite a few
>> changes to MooTools so that a browser as old as IE5.5 can run the
>> site, but I haven't figured out a good way to deal with visitors who
>> have javascript disabled, and I'm also really concerned with visitors
>> who use a screen reader -- even if they use it in a browser with
>> javascript enabled.
>>
>> I need a way of getting non-javascript visitors to a different page. I
>> tried inserting a <meta> redirect tag in the head, and disabling it in
>> javascript with window.stop() and document.execCommand('Stop') (for
>> IE). That works great in all versions of Firefox, Webkit and IE, but
>> it doesn't seem to be stopping Opera from redirecting. I've also tried
>> removing the tag, but I think once the timer starts, it can't be
>> stopped.
>>
>> Is this a dumb way of redirecting?
>
