On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tom Ha wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> 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...) > > Get there! Read about progressive enhancement. +1 Not only for this, (because I think that using JavaScript in, almost, the year 2010 is more than OK), but just because you have to.
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