Re: CSS for positioning


"rf" <rf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ideas:
http://snipurl.com/w4xqb

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/php-photoalbum.htm

which, like just about everything at dynamicdrive, fails miserably if
Javascript is disabled. The thumbnails are not even *displayed* on that
page without Javascript, although, stupidly, the credits for them are
:-)

Hint: the single most important visitor to your site does not have
javascript enabled.


Do you know anyone who disables javascript on purpose? FWIW.. most
people have no idea how to do that, let alone would disable js unless
they are just specifically looking to do so.. and then, such people would
know how to turn it back on.

The problem I have with all this stuff is that there is no code that will
be perfect to work in every scenario for every browser and every viewer
that hits a page. If someone disables javascript on a page that uses it,
then it's too bad for them. If they want to view the page.. let them
enable javascript.


It's not people who I am concerned with. It's that most important visitor
mentioned above. The search engine bot.

If you use javascript to insert content (eg. images) onto a page, as the
page you mention above appears to do, then google will never see that
content.

Besides, what that page does is a simple exercise to code in a fully cross
browser mannar, and also in a mannar that degrades gracefully in the
absense of javascript, so google will be able to index the site properly


the page was a suggestion or an idea... use it .. don't use it ... it
doesn't matter to me either way. A person can keep trying to get the
perfect page and never get the page working so anyone can appreciate it, or
you can do something now and get the page up in a timely manner. If all
someone wants to do is code for the google bot, I imagine there are other
ways to do that and still use some of those ideas on dynamic drive. Why
re-invent the wheel? I don't understand why it's so difficult to get a page
going that will work for a great many people and the browsers they use...
but might not work perfect for a small number of people. I don't think it's
possible to have a perfect website and perfect code and the site look nice
all at the same time with everything sheer perfection. It doesn't exist.
--
Jenn (from Oklahoma)


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