HTML fall-back for AJAX behaviour when NoScript is on

[ndarville]

Example and Code

Say you have a button:

<a class="js" href="{% thread_js %}>Subscribe</a>

Target this with JS:

// (...)

var jsButtons = // (...);

// Change `href` attribute to "#";

In other words, the buttons work with normal links and views, unless JS is enable, which alters the links to "#".

To Do

1. Try this in the user view first, since there are a lot of problems with thanks/agrees
2. Create view for non-JS queries, action_html
   • Apply @login_required()
3. Template:
   • Turn GET buttons into POST forms
   • Insert {% url %}s in templates
4. JS
   • Write new JS which strips the {% url %}---or leaves it there and ignores it
   • Update jQuery to most recent version and test
   • http://code.google.com/p/django-voting/wiki/RedditStyleVoting

[ndarville]

ef409fc405cdabcc5dee5e0840e2b76b073dbadc.

[ndarville]

Thread

HTML

• Provide nonjs href URL
  1. Bookmark 0e2d53e4eb45c018d37ee55cbfd8d2d0cfaf1385
  2. (Subscribe)
     • From threads 647b794
     • From subscriptions c0141b35ddf6b6e5d179b5c7c17ab30ee924549c
  3. Save 0e2d53e4eb45c018d37ee55cbfd8d2d0cfaf1385
  4. Implement using a unified nonjs view and simple-actionstemplate
     • (Thank) 5b036a949598c9baa1fc10421026224a2b589a15
     • (Agree) 5b036a949598c9baa1fc10421026224a2b589a15
  5. Display otherwise JS-toggled
     • Thanks
     • Agrees

CSS

• Make the input CSS similar to the button CSS, lest the Bookmark/Subscribe buttons look out of whack.
  • Create class="js big", class="js small" variations for the option of different button sizes.

JS

• $this.text() to $this.val()

views.py

• thread_nonjs (replace with per-operation views via simple_mod_actions)
• Add tests for all non_js views as well.
• Find a way to redirect back properly on success. Look into next and request.path. Ask on IRC.
  • Implemented in 647b794 via request.META.HTTP_REFERER.

[ndarville]

Create a generic nonjs view for subscriptions, bookmarks, saves, thanks, and agrees later on with object_id and action arguments. (Done.)

Also rename simple_mod_action to simple_action. (Done.)

[ndarville]

Since thanks and agrees are off the table at the moment, I think it is fair to say that the app can now be considered to fully support NoScript!

Suck it Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of you who don’t.