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RE: NOSCRIPT question

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From: Steven Faulkner
Date: May 2, 2006 7:50PM


BTW
If you or anybody has a working example of a "more logical" method,
please supply the URL so I can point our client to it.


with regards

Steven Faulkner
Web Accessibility Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Heilmann [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 May 2006 9:40 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED> ; WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] NOSCRIPT question
>
>
> > 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/
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