#2 Textarea default missing

[Tom Lisjac]

The original version of Epoz would default to a textarea if the client browser didn't support the Epoz javascript. Version 1.0.1 doesn't. Konqueror and Dillo produce chaotic displays of horizontal bars, icons and text when visiting the project's demo url. Lynx faults out with a "bad html" message.

Sites that use the 1.0.1 version of Epoz will be broken and look bad on these browsers. Please fix/restore the textarea default feature.

[Guido Wedorp]

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Sorry for not responding earlier, we generally use another
issue tracker for Epoz, and I don't check this one too
often. For more information, see
http://epoz.sourceforge.net/resources.html.
About the issue: this is currently indeed not covered, and
I'm unsure of how to tackle it: the previous version of Epoz
(0.x) added itself to an HTML page using document.write,
which can easily be contained in a conditional, so it was
easy to show something else when it detected the browser
wasn't capable of showing it, and will by default not show
anything in browsers that didn't even support JavaScript.
The new version is fully built up from HTML elements, so can
therefore not be 'hidden' using JavaScript or CSS if those
technologies aren't available (and it's a lot less easy to
remove all that stuff even if they are).
I just wrote a small document (not checked in yet ;) that
describes how to do 'graceful degradation' using server-side
techniques, I guess for now using those would be the best
advise I can give you. If you can think of a good way to
overcome the problems I mentioned earlier, please let me know ;)

[Guido Wedorp]

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Note that the 1.x branch continued development under a new
name, Kupu, and will be distributed from a new website,
http://kupu.oscom.org.