Re: Iconize weather info and something else

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Max Hammond" <ma...@fl...> writes:

>> We should also be careful not to send the JavaScript to people who
>> use older browsers - PHP has a function that can help with this
>> (get_browser()).
> 
> I'm not convinved that it's worth the bother. When 0.01% of people
> are using browsers that won't understand this kind of javascript,
> it's probably not worth it. 5 years ago, yes, you had to take into
> account the fact that a good handful of people would be using
> netscape 2, but even then, we were designing for the shiny new
> Netscape 3, with all it's advanced features.

Yes, but people might have javascript turned off, even in their new
fancy browser. So, there should still be a way to get the normal
report.
 
> There is a reason for doing a browser-detect though, or at least
> finding a way around the problem: some people use screen readers, or
> parsers like betsie to present easy-to-read versions of a page. They
> won't like javascript.

I don't know betsie, but you're right: there has to be an option to
turn this javascript-thing off. And it would be preferable if the
script could try and guess when to turn if off.

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