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Off topic... is this a correct ranking of preferred form in handling this situation? blank page or other such confusing non-function : bad "your browser sucks
by damon_c 14y ago
Off topic... is this a correct ranking of preferred form in handling this situation?
blank page or other such confusing non-function : bad
"your browser sucks" - page still doesn't work : poor
"please enable scripts or get a newer browser" - page still doesn't work : fair
"please enable scripts or get a newer browser" - page works for non-js users but is somewhat crippled : good
page works perfectly without js : excellent (you could use headers to have it auto reload every few seconds?)
- andypants 14y agoI agree, this is a simple site displaying information in a very simple way. It should be very easy to fallback onto other ways of displaying this info.
- nemothekid 14y agoIf this was a company website or something maybe I would agree with you, but seeing how the draw here is "Realtime" bitcoin, the OP obviously put in a lot of work in the realtime aspect. If you look at the source it looks like websockets + canvas. Considering this, it seems OP would have needed to rewrite the whole service (he would have needed to write application layer + the alternate html) just to serve those without javascript, which would not be in realtime (and essentially a duplicate service of all the other bitcoin exchange boards). Whats the tradeoff in terms of development time vs. supporting a small set of users?