Make Web Help Context Help work without JavaScript
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 4:25 pm
It would be useful to be able to deploy Web Help on a local machine without a HTTP server.
Sadly, Internet Explorer and many other browsers block JavaScript from local files.
That entirely breaks context help.
For this reason and for other script averse situations it would be nice if
Web Help worked fully without JavaScript.
One way to implement this would be to generate a redirection page for each id.
It would redirect to the topic the id concerns using a refresh tag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh
You could even make the tree navigation work without JavaScript.
http://www.thecssninja.com/css/css-tree-menu
Might require extra XSLT trickery to make the current page always be folded open when you navigate to it, though.
Sadly, Internet Explorer and many other browsers block JavaScript from local files.
That entirely breaks context help.
For this reason and for other script averse situations it would be nice if
Web Help worked fully without JavaScript.
One way to implement this would be to generate a redirection page for each id.
It would redirect to the topic the id concerns using a refresh tag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh
You could even make the tree navigation work without JavaScript.
http://www.thecssninja.com/css/css-tree-menu
Might require extra XSLT trickery to make the current page always be folded open when you navigate to it, though.