Last modified: 2013-12-27 01:52:11 UTC
Created attachment 11600 [details] Replace JS redirect with HTML redirect SemanticForms version: 2.5.1 When creating a page through Form:Whatever, the subsequent Special:FormStart page uses a Javascript redirect to proceed to the formedit page. This breaks the form creation process in browsers that do not support Javascript such as Lynx, any browser whose user disabled Javascript for security or aesthetic considerations, and hypothetical future browsers. I have attached a proposed patch to SF_FormStart.php to use a plain HTML redirect.
Won't regular forms fail anyway, if you use a browser without Javascript enabled?
Dropping priority to trivial if that is the case. For the forms, saving works but preview and diff use JS redirects. I don't see a quick fix for these. In theory, the server-side code could do whatever the redirect triggers and skip the redirection step, but it looks like it will take some effort to rearrange things to work that way. I will work on it if I have the time. If I am the only user to care about this, consider reclassifying this ticket as a enhancement request to make simple features work without Javascript.
I just added in this patch (or a variant of it) - thanks! For the record, I'm not really trying to avoid excess use of Javascript; but using HTML directly definitely seems like a cleaner solution.
