On 3/9/22 22:36, Anonymous wrote:
> I dont think chat rooms without JS is possible. Maybe make a forum like
> this one? (RockSolid is not bloated by scripts)

I feel the need to bump this because I once had to fish around for this
information a long, long time ago.

Sure it is possible to do a chat without JS. Just use the HTML <meta
refresh> tag in a iframe set to refresh the iframe every few seconds.
The part where the local client types a message into a chat should be in
a form in a separate iframe. When new lines are sent to the server they
get parsed by the server and go into a roll-off file that is fed back to
each client iframe every N seconds. The meta refresh does this for you
without javascript.

Go to Mozilla or w3schools or geeksforgeeks and do a search for HTML
meta refresh tag and iframe tag. You'll get all the information you
need. Problem solved.

In fact JavaScript is not needed for web browsers, except by bad design
choices of the browser and protocol maintainers. HTML could easily feed
form elements to a server the same way AJAX does. They just choose not
to make it so because the industry wants JavaScript to captivate the end
user and ensure tracking and advertising power over the user. But you
can hack it as if by using iframes.

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G.K.