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  • Registered: 2005-06-12
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Topic: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

Hello everyone,

having been looking for a forum software, I wanted something clean and simple, and so it is no wonder that I came here :-)

I do have one more question about PunBB:

Is there any feature anywhere in the software that only works if the user has javascript enabled in the browser? Any other question I had has been answered either somewhere on the site or in a review, but I am not totally sure about this one.

Either way: Big thanks to Rickard and everyone else involved for this remarkable piece of software! It seems the only one on the market at the moment where all pages validate without errors with the w3c.

Regards,

Bernhard

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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

i think the only javascript feature is the submit button which is disabled when you click it, but works fine without javascript smile

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  • From: Germany
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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

Connorhd wrote:

i think the only javascript feature is the submit button which is disabled when you click it, but works fine without javascript smile

Everything that works fine without javascript as well is fine with me. I had stumbled over something in my registration process here, yesterday, when I got a javascript error box - was too stupid to write down what it was, though...
Anyway, I suppose the errorhandling would have worked without js being enabled, just an additional check before commiting the input fields, maybe.

What made me thinking about javascript was that the search function on SMF seems, at least in the installation on www.simplemachines.org, crippled - you can' t choose _where_ to search without it.  But I don't think PunBB will have anything like that.

Regards,

Bernhard

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

PunBB should work just as well with Javascript disabled.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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  • Registered: 2005-06-12
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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

Thats good news, thx. I have a board up and running by now and like it a lot.
Found two or three more translation issues I will have to fix, though - in my own translation file, that is ;-)

As nearly everybody here seems to have said sooner or later: Thanks alot for this elegant work!

  • Registered: 2005-04-01
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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

Connorhd wrote:

i think the only javascript feature is the submit button which is disabled when you click it, but works fine without javascript smile

You've also got your html to xhtml feature and your submit button disabler feature. And, some mods use JavaScript to work properly. So, if you don't mind the submit button not being disabled when clicked, your XHTML being invalid, and your mods not working right (if said mods use JavaScript), then it works fine without JavaScript. smile

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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

You've also got your html to xhtml feature and your submit button disabler feature

i said the second one, but i dunno what you mean for the first one

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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

There's a html2xhtml.js file in the root. I was looking at a modded install.php script and I found some JavaScript in there to validate the form.

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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

html2xhtml.js - no there isn't, at least not that i can see, the only form stuff just checks a value is entered so you don't mess up your install

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  • From: 127.0.0.1
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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

html2xhtml.js is not part of PunBB.

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11 Reply by scottywz (edited by scottywz 2005-06-17 17:24)

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Re: Activation of Javascript in Browser necessary?

big_smile That was something I uploaded but don't need anymore.

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