In Firefox, in about:config, switch javascript:enabled to false
Visit http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow_QA&action=new-topic
User with no javascript can type a Flow title, but can not type a Flow body or save a Flow topic
This is a regression problem, see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163993/
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T60019 No-JavaScript - Flow glitches (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | None | T74064 unable to create topic without Javascript enabled |
Gerrit 156489 deliberately set the needed textarea and buttons in flow_newtopic_form to style="display:none" in order to "Avoid flash of unstyled content on new topic form." JS then makes them visible on click.
On the standalone new-topic page both JS and no-JS should simply show the entire form from the start.
An alternative is to use the client-{,no}js classes to control display, but that would mean doing useless JS work and would have to tweak to avoid the FOUC flash. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/CSS#client-js_and_client-nojs