How to handle web surfers, who disabled JavaScript by Michael
Kashirin
Article describes how to create a web page that can be viewed by users, who
disabled JavaScript support or whose web browser does not support it.
There are hundreds of millions of Web surfers today. Each of them uses one of
multiple web browsers available now. You as a Webmaster create cool web pages
that are full of graphic and JavaScript and look very impressive in modern web
browsers like Internet Explorer or FireFox. But ask yourself: "How my cool web
page will look like, if the web surfer use Linx browser (text based) or just
disabled JavaScript support?" You may think that number of Linx browser users
is quite small today and you can ignore them, but search engines spiders does
not support JavaScript as well. You cannot ignore search engines in the modern
world.
There are some safe ways how to handle search engines spiders and web surfers,
who does not support JavaScript, at your web page.
One of the approaches is provided by HTML. It is a NOSCRIPT tag. You can
enclose in NOSCRIPT tags HTML code that will be displayed in browsers that do
not support scripting. You can place navigation hyperlinks here, if you use
JavaScript menu for this purpose. Instead of content, dynamically generated by
JavaScript, you can place some static text between NOSCRIPT tags. NOSCRIPT
content is invisible for web surfers, who use modern web browsers, but it will
be very useful for Linx users and search engines spiders.
The second, more flexible approach, is using of JavaScript. Yes, you can use
JavaScript to handle visitors, who does not support JavaScript. It is simple.
You can place at the web page HTML elements with the content that should be
visible for these who does not support scripting. Then place at the bottom of
the page simple script code that sets ".style.display" property to "none" for
such elements. Therefore, if your web page is viewed in the browser, which
supports scripting, script code will be executed and all additional elements
become invisible. If your web page is viewed in the browser, which does not
support scripting, script code will be ignored.
So, using these simple approaches, you can handle all possible web browsers and
provide search engines spiders with additional relevant content, which is very
important as well.
About the Author
Michael Kashirin is a webmaster of
TRY-2-FIND.COM Meta Search Engine and
LOOK-4IT.COM Meta Search Engine.
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