Heh heh, now that you've explained where I've gone wrong, what
approach *should* I be taking? That is, I don't know how to put the
cart after the horse....
On May 11, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote:
Hi Dale, hopefully I've understood your question, so...
Witango is a server-side language, meaning it only executes on the
server.
HTML and JavaScript are client-side languages, meaning at the
server level
(when Witango is executing) your HTML and JavaScript is meaningless
text
(ignored by Witango) and is not executed by the browser until
"after" your
Witango code has finished executing and sent the results to the
browser
(client), then your HTML and JavaScript will be executed.
You're putting the cart (JavaScript) before the horse (Witango).
Hope this helps.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:13 AM
To: Witango-Talk list
Subject: Witango-Talk: Javascript problem - detecting browsers
with JS
turned off
I decided it was best to use something like object detection because
JS can be disabled even in JS-capable browsers and I was having
display issues if JS was turned off... so I wanted to set something
up to work either way.
BUT I am running into really huge issues implementing this, because
things seem to be working "not as advertised" in both Firefox and in
Safari (I haven't even begun to attempt IE!)
There are two different problems here.
1] This does a test for javascript (inside a script tag), and if it
works, writes out a variable
<pre>
<script language="javascript">
if document.write {
document.write("<@assign name=request$donext
value=firstreview>");
}
</script>
</pre>
However if javascript is turned OFF in either Firefox or Safari, it
still creates (writes out) the variable!! Huh?
2]
<pre>
<noscript><@assign name="request$donext" value=""></noscript>
</pre>
And this is supposed to null out the "donext" variable ONLY if
javascript is not present/disabled. But the variable is nulled when
JS is on OR off! What's going on here?
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