Posted by SmilingPolitely on 10/24/05 15:16

I have a couple of questions on the use of JavaScript in web pages, that
I would like to open to the forum to discuss...

What are the pros and cons when using JavaScript as a substitute for
<include> for information contained on every page?

e.g.

I have a header in a .js file on every page of my site:
document.write("<a href=\"index.html\">Home<\/a> | ");
document.write("<a href=\"about.html\">About<\/a> | ");
document.write("<a href=\"bio.html\">Biography<\/a> | ");


called by:

<script type="text/javascript" src="header.js"></script>

There has been some discussion around about the use of javascript to do
this, specifically for those browsers and/users that are not JavaScript
enabled.....

but the next problem,

if the browser is not JavaScript enabled and therefore unable to see my
..js headers and footers, then how can I expect them to fill in a form
that is validated using JavaScript?

Is there a way to account for all users and their browsers, or do I aim
somewhere in the middle, html headers and footers but with JavaScript
form validation?


For your consideration.


Scott

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