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Unobtrusive Hangman Game

Thursday November 27, 2008
Moving all your JavaScript out of the page means that you don't display broken content to your visitors

One problem with adding a JavaScript Hangman game to your web page is that not all of the visitors to your page will have JavaScript enabled. What will those visitors see on your page? Well the last thing we want them to see is a part of the hangman game since the game simply will not work for them (we'd need a server side scripted version to work for those people).

This version of my Hangman game is written using unobtrusive JavaScript techniques so that if JavaScript is disabled then the only thing in the HTML is an empty div so that the rest of the page is displayed and your visitor never even knows that the game is there (unless you refer to it elsewhere in the page).

Unobtrusive Hangman Game
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