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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