(replying to foundation-l post on wikitech-l) On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > So far this is the best way to provide a dynamic notice to the majority > of our visitors without causing problems for others. If you have > technical suggestions for alternate implementations, they're welcome in > a more relevant channel such as wikitech-l.
The only non-script solution that seems like it would work well is <iframe seamless> from HTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#attr-iframe-seamless This solves the current problem that <iframe>s must have a prespecified height, which is why we can't use them now. Of course, <iframe> isn't necessarily terribly well supported in weird browsers, but it would be better than JavaScript. One possible way we might have more graceful fallback now is to have some <noscript> content. One possibility would be an <iframe> containing the content (which might be the wrong height, but oh well); another would be to have a message pointing to the announcements. Of course, it would be non-dismissible without JavaScript, so it would be best to keep it less obtrusive if possible. So the message seems like a better idea. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
