[Mediawiki-l] not a single <noscript> on Wikipedia

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 14:58:36 UTC 2011


jidanni en jidanni.org wrote:
>>>>>> "AV" == Ashar Voultoiz<hashar+wmf en free.fr>  writes:
>
> AV>  Indeed the "Article Feedback" panel seems to be appended to the end of
> AV>  the page through JavaScript. Still, when using a text browser / having
> AV>  JS disabled, it degrades nicely in the sense you have nothing showing.
>
> What if the IRS's tax refund box degraded nicely so that nothing showed?
> What's so nice about that? Or fair?
> Not the slightest hint afforded to the user that they are missing out on
> something.
>
> Nobody values<noscript>  here on this mailing list. They probably never
> even heard of it on the Wikipedia mailing list.

Well, the reason is that such things shouldn't have been done in 
javascript to begin with...




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