On 16/06/07, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com wrote:
Quick question: should a MediaWiki page look the same in the same browser with and without javascript support?
I think it's very important to remember that MediaWiki is a product which is used in thousands of installations across the world, to power the collaborative editing and information sharing needs of a wide variety of organisations, from fan projects to schools, colleges and universities, to whacking great big, well-known companies such as Intel and Novell.
With that, I think it's imperative that the software does not rely upon CSS or JavaScript to do anything "important" with respect to content and the page overall, in other words, skins would have to degrade gracefully.
Rob Church