[Rails] Re: How to: Check if Javascript is enabled

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
<rails-mailing-list@andreas-s.net> wrote:
>
> Tom Ha wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Rails has fantastic Javascript helpers, which I have immediately used
>> for my website.
>
> Actually, Rails has terrible JS helpers: they encourage a poor style of
> programming where JS is mixed into HTML.  Generally, this is not a good
> idea.
>
>>
>> Since some features of my website now rely 100% on Javascript being
>> enabled in the user's browser, I now need a way to either:
>> a) block the usage of the site when Javascript is disabled, or
>> b) display a very visible message that tells the user to enable
>> Javascript.
>
> The <noscript> tag will work, or you could have a message in the HTML
> that your JS code will remove.
>
>>
>> Has anybody good ideas for a plugin (or some other solution) to check if
>> Javascript is enabled and to then let the user know?
>>
>> (I know, a good programmer would let the site work without JS as well,
>> but currently, I'm not there yet...)
>
> Get there!  Read about progressive enhancement.
+1
Not only for this, (because I think that using JavaScript in, almost,
the year 2010 is more than OK), but just because you have to.

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