Fun with window.alert

[Toby A Inkster]

Here is a nice way of adding a JavaScript window.alert message that still
works when JavaScript is disabled! (But only in Gecko and Opera 7.2.)

<a href="data:,&quot;Hello%20World&quote;"
onclick="window.alert(unescape(this.href.substr(6))); return false;">Test</a>

Groovy.

 

[Whitecrest]

Here is a nice way of adding a JavaScript window.alert message that still
works when JavaScript is disabled! (But only in Gecko and Opera 7.2.)
<a href="data:,&quot;Hello%20World&quote;"
onclick="window.alert(unescape(this.href.substr(6))); return false;">Test</a>

Have not tried it, but if it does not work in about 80% of the browsers,
then aren't you doing the same thing that you tell me I should not do?
That is, have a solution that does not work for everyone.

And in this case, that everyone, is more than 80% of the people out
there. Personally I think if that is what you are looking for, say to
have an alert that says something like "ha ha IE users can't see this",
then more power to you. (That is actually a pretty cool way to use it.)

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Have not tried it, but if it does not work in about 80% of the browsers,
then aren't you doing the same thing that you tell me I should not do?
That is, have a solution that does not work for everyone.

Err no. You misinterpret me. It works in all JavaScript-supporting
browsers, *plus* it works in Opera and Gecko when JavaScript is disabled.

So it works more often than a typical window.alert message.

 

[SeeSchloss]

Err no. You misinterpret me. It works in all
JavaScript-supporting browsers, *plus* it works in Opera and
Gecko when JavaScript is disabled.

So it works more often than a typical window.alert message.

So the interest is ?... to annoy users who have disabled
javascript especially not to get all these sort of things ?

 

[Klaus Johannes Rusch]

So the interest is ?... to annoy users who have disabled
javascript especially not to get all these sort of things ?

Point out a security issue with browsers that execute Javascript even
when it's supposed to be of?

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Point out a security issue with browsers that execute Javascript even
when it's supposed to be of?

No, they don't.

It just uses a "data:" URL to display the text instead of JavaScript.