On 3 Dec 2012 Jim Nagel wrote: > Would it be a big thing to provide a warning when a page contains > Javascript that Netsurf cannot render?
I suspect that it would! For a start it would have to work out whether there was an adequate <noscript> section. > This would save my non-techie wife the frustration that a site > "doesn't work", and calling me down from upstairs to explain yet > again. (And other new users, not just a particular wife.) > Maybe a little box down in the bottom left near the "Fetching, > processing" message. Or maybe red text appended to that message. > Or even a message that comes up when she tries to click on an > inoperative button. I have no idea of the programming effort this > would entail, though I suspect any such sensitivity to particular > areas of a page would itself depend on Javascript "mouse-over". It usually tells you at the bottom of the window if a form cannot be submitted or if a button links to javascript. Of course I would love to have a mechanism to submit a form where there is no text input field or submit button. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
