lewiscowper
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9 years ago I definitely like the idea of a <noscript> tag to provide the link to the FAQs on Github as a really quick win.
A further enhancement would be adding a service worker to provide caching of requests once the user has visited the site once. This also has the benefit of second visits being significantly faster across supported devices, and can be done in a progressive enhancement friendly way.
However the crux of the matter is we fetch on every page load, but the FAQs aren't updated that quickly, so static-ifying the content and providing a link to the appropriate GH issue, perhaps with a behind the scenes request to add any info we don't have already. I'd quite like to take on doing at least a subset of this.
As far as I can see we have a few things we could do with this issue.
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<noscript>tags for a quick non-JS friendly addition. - [ ] Service worker addition to cache requests to GH so we don't request them for the same user more than once. (Added bonus that the FAQ would work offline)
- [ ] Static HTML added so that we have the list of FAQs quickly, perhaps with some of the click-through answers also made static.
janl
If you turn JavaScript off, all you can see in this app is a header and a footer.
Obviously, this isn't very accessible for people on slow connections, mobile phones and other non-js-friendly situations. I'd like to know if anyone has any basic thoughts on how you can still offer some kind of help when someone visits the site without JavaScript.
To fully combat this would probably involve not relying on AngularJS to serve the content. However; that is a very large task and one a little beyond me at this stage.
I was thinking about a simple "The JavaScript content couldn't be served, follow this link to see the GitHub issues". Better yet, perhaps serve static HTML that corresponds to the three most asked questions. I know you can use the
<noscript></noscript>tags to serve special content if JavaScript won't load, but I am unsure how reliable that is.I guess I'd just like to hear some of thoughts on whether you think that this is something that could be tackled / how you would go about solving this kind of problem.