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Oct 13.2005

Hi,
I am developing an application for mobile browsers some of which support javascript and some dont. So i want to notify the user if his/her browser does not suppoert java script is this possible in any way?. Basically i dont want the user to use my application if his browser doesnt support java script.
Thank you in advance

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@David_HarrisonOct 13.2005 — Why not? What is it neccessary to turn people away simply because JavaScript is not supported?

Why can't you serve up an HTML and CSS version that doesn't rely on JavaScript? There's nothing wrong with using JavaScript to enhance something, but to rely on it so that it fails for those without JavaScript, that's when something is wrong.

However, you could simply redirect JavaScript users to a different page:location.replace("http://www.w3.org/");
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@aditya_internetOct 19.2005 — Hi,

May b this will not help u, as you want that user sud not b able to use ur app if he dont hav javascript but if u ever want to display just a message to the user that they cant run javascript on there browser, use this.

[code=html]
<noscript>
Your browser does not support Javascript or it is disabled, try to enable it.
</noscript>
[/code]
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@David_HarrisonOct 19.2005 — Some people can't enable JavaScript, and some don't want to.
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@JPnycOct 20.2005 — There's a simple way to do this. The initial contact page contains a JS redirect to the main page. If they don't have JS, it'll never get there.
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@aditya_internetOct 20.2005 — Hi,

If you want to restrict people from accessing your page without javascript then anyone can just view the source of your contact page and see the url it is redirecting to and directly access the page.
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