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Article #43Re: Problem with Netscape 4.7
From: Alan J. Flavell
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:45
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:45
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Jim Ley wrote: > >When you say "no action is actually required" I presume this means > >"the form isn't supposed to work when javascript is disabled". > >Speaking in general terms I'd have to counsel against that approach, > >but it's your web page after all. > > Indeed and writing the form tags with script would overcome the > problem, Yes. That's good advice in general, since it makes it possible to include goodies for javascript-enabled situations yet they don't stand there like a non-working departures board (uk.railway passim) for others. > it is a page about javascript, and the form is there for a > demonstration, OK, it's a special case, and the whole page is pointless without js. No grounds for further argument in the special case, but you're right to still point to good advice for the more general situation. > >[1]Validators of course can't properly parse an HTML document that's > >meant to be partly generated at run-time from Javascript, so there are > >bound to be additional anomalies if you're doing that. > > DOM2 browsers, (or innerHTML extension browsers) could of course > easily provide an add-in which provided validation of just such > processed pages at any stage, Makes sense. My comments were only about parsing documents online in a static fashion. If I was offering such an online service to all and sundry, I'm not sure how far I'd want to go in putting myself on the end of their potentially loopy javascript... So I think it would indeed need to be "client" side. cheers
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