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RE: NOSCRIPT question

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 2, 2006 7:20PM

I should have read Christian's message first!
AWK


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of
> Christian Heilmann
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:40 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED> ; WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] NOSCRIPT question
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> > I can give you an example of NOSCRIPT use that i recommended to a
> > client yesterday.
> >
> > The clients page has a javascript based "glossary" function: when a
> > user activates a Javascript link on certain words, content
> is written
> > to the page with the definition of the word. because the content is
> > written to the page via javascript it is not available when
> Javascript
> > is disabled or not supported. In this case I recommended that a
> > NOSCRIPT element be included containing the word
> definitions, so that
> > the information is available regardless of javascript support.
>
> And how is that more logical than having the definitions at
> the end of the page and using target links on the words? This
> would work without JavaScript. With JavaScript you can
> initially hide all the definitions, loop through all links
> and display them f.e. as a tooltip when the user clicks or
> hovers over the links.
>
> No need for NOSCRIPT, it is in 99.9% of the cases a sad
> excuse for bad script planning.
>
> --
> Chris Heilmann
> Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com
> Writing: http://icant.co.uk/
> Binaries: http://www.onlinetools.org/
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