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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Drawing Application Preparation

Qasim Hafeez
Qasim Hafeez
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Qasim Hafeez
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How would jQuery work with JavaScript disabled?

Towards the end, Andrew says the previous 5 projects would work if JavaScript was disabled? How is this possible? jQuery is JavaScript, so how can it work ?

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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

jQuery itself wouldn't work, and you would lose the features you added with jQuery/JavaScript but the pages would still have basic functionality. The gallery will still work, you'll just click through to the images instead of showing a lightbox. The username/password will still submit fine, it just won't be checked on the client-side first. More "fails gracefully" than "works 100%".