[thelist] Speaking of detecting: howto detect Javascript on/o ff?

[Ryan Finley]

It's the same way you can send HTML email and track who opens it.

The image src points to a server side script that takes the information off
the URL and then changes the content-type of the page to "image/gif",
passing back a 1x1 invisible gif file.

You can do some pretty nifty stuff if you do:

var extra_info = GetInfoAsURLParam();
document.write("<img src='dummy.gif?" + extra_info + "'>");

The "extra_info" could be the size of the screen, bit depth, etc.
Basically, any type of information you can get via Javascript.

	Ryan Finley
	President - SurveyMonkey.com

-----Original Message-----
From: James Aylard [mailto:evolt at equilon-mrc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 1:11 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Speaking of detecting: howto detect Javascript
on/off?


jeff,

> all of this redirection-detection got me thinking.  what if there were a
way
> to detect without a redirect?  how would one do that?  what i'd do is swap
> an image (well, not really an image, but i think you'll understand where
i'm
> going with this) and pass it on the server that way.  something like this:

    Very interesting. Borrows a page from doubleclick, et al. ;) What's not
clear to me (and I'm probably superimposing some preconceived notions on
this) is how you actually use the img src value in practice? Can you give a
scenario with a code snippet or two to clarify? Thanks.

James Aylard



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