ansaurus

Question

Answer 1

+5 A:

You can have a noscript block in the head element with a meta refresh tag in it. Example:

<head>
    <!-- title, scripts, css etc go here -->
    <noscript>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://yoursite.com/nojswarning.html"&gt;
    </noscript>
</head>

you can read more about meta refresh here

Hope this helps

EDIT: To clarify, the noscript tag runs only if JavaScript is turned off for the user. So in this case if the JS is turned off the user will be redirected to http://yoursite.com/nojswarning.html. of course you can change this to be any page on any site you want.

Darko Z 2009-04-13 22:47:16

Answer 2

+1 A:

The simple answer is to have the entire app load via JS. That way, the app would never show for someone who has JS enabled.

An alternative would be to start your page with an iframe, which loads to a JS-checking page. All the page does is redirect the user to the app's true URL via JS. Thus, if the user doesn't have JS, they won't get redirected (and you can inform them that they need JS with <noscript> tags). (I say to use an iframe so you don't give non-JS users an easy URL to get to the app with.)

Daniel Lew 2009-04-13 22:47:33

Answer 3

A:

The <noscript></noscript> would seem to work. I would make the default a small loader with an overlay, and if the client does not support javascript, the javascript would never hide the loader. And the content in the <noscript> tag would show with the overlay.

ohdeargod 2009-04-14 02:44:26

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

Ruby on Rails, Javascript detection

related questions