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Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:53:58 GMT
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"Sproaticus" <jeremy@sproat.us> writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Amado C. Pinlac writes:
> > Check out our latest work from our homepage, UCS TIE Crawler;
> > http://ACPin.homestead.com/Home.html
> > Just click on the thumbnail to get to the pics and your comments, critiques
> > are appreciated.
> 
> I don't see anything on this page except for a black field with a light gray
> grid and a starry pattern.
> 
> And a message, in unreadable black on black, that says "Javascript is either
> disabled or not supported by this browser. This page may not appear
> properly."  I've tried looking at your page several times in the past with
> the same effect, but this is the first time I noticed the warning message.

The problem is that the default foreground color is black, and the
page has a black background but does not specify a foreground color.

There should be a <FONT COLOR> tag in the <NOSCRIPT> area.

> If you're going to require javascript to show pictures of lego models, I'd
> recommend at least making the warning message VISIBLE, and include a link to
> your brickshelf page.

However, the number of users who disable javascript today is probably
0.01% or so...

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
(...) *shrug* Until four things happen: (1) Javascript becomes less of a security/stability risk, and (2) ECMA officially becomes an integral part of the HTML standard, and (3) Microsoft and Mozilla and whoever else can agree on a common DOM, and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)

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