Create a toggle script to switch between JS enhanced and pla

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:08:23 +0000

Create a toggle script to switch between JS enhanced and plain HTML modes for all applications. Possibilities: - Maybe create it as part of preferences? - Create a link to the toggle from the log-in page? - Store the setting in the session and check the setting when calling $browser->hasFeature() so that 'javascript' or 'dom' is overridden? This would allow users which have JS switched off on their browsers (but which are nonetheless JS capable) to fall back on plain HTML rendering, eg. sidebar, which currently does not happen because the browser would always return hasFeature('dom') as true.

From the dev list, some of my thoughts around this: I've

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:58:12 +0000

From the dev list, some of my thoughts around this: I've discussed this with Marko a bit already, but for everyone: I disagree with this angle of implementation. I don't think that users should have to choose a preference for "display mode"; I think that we should detect the user's current browser (using js and storing the result in the session if necessary) and degrade everything as gracefully as possible (using

tag. Though, same problem for guest users that we already talked about. Anyway, what do folks think about the preference vs. automatic question? I think that users shouldn't have to set a permanent preference and then change it if they changes browsers, I think we should adapt to whatever browser is in use and give them the richest possible UI. Thoughts? </article> </main></body></html>

Allow plain HTML toggle

Create a toggle script to switch between JS enhanced and pla

From the dev list, some of my thoughts around this: I've