I am writing a site that uses heavy prototype libraries + scriptaculous + jQuery ...
The issue i am having is a simple one .... The site is marketed on its ease of use due to certain techniques ive developed but they rely on Javascript and wont work without it.... The site still functions without javascript but some core functions cannot be achieved .. by this i mean someone can still browse the site and search it and do alot of things. So ive gone down the thinking process of redirecting people wihtout javascript enabled or no javascript to a page on my site telling them to enable javascript.... Now i know this is a big concern to alot of web developers as the norm (mostly for me aswell) is make a functioning site then enhance the Users Experiance with ajax/js technologies .... But my feeling is if people dont start to force the issue of requiring javascript then the web wont evolve into what it could become.... As of January 2008 95% of the browsers in the world had Javascript turned on see here http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp .. and i am personally not bothered about the 5% that dont .. i also know of a few major websites that demand javascript be turned on to enter them . So my questions are .. A. Should we as developers be taking these leaps of faith and demanding a better development environment for our client side programming. B. Would googlebot and other Search Engines follow my <noscript> header redirect !! Hopefully this wont get flamed to much !! Thanks in advance Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
