[Geoserver-devel] [jira] Created: (GEOS-1560) Javascript is required to view main page

Javascript is required to view main page
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                 Key: GEOS-1560
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-1560
             Project: GeoServer
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Configuration
            Reporter: David Winslow
            Assignee: David Winslow
            Priority: Trivial

This evening I spent about 20 minutes in IRC while helping a user who was waiting on his freshly installed geoserver instance to start up. He finally got in after this snippet of conversation:
[17:53] <SE-Wilco2> Still 0%. Refresh shows 0%. Log shows a 200 status, followed by 404 for gs.gif and gs.ico
[17:56] <dwinslow> do you have javascript disabled in your browser?
[17:56] <SE-Wilco2> Yes, I do. Why do you ask?

It would be really nice to not require Javascript for the geoserver homepage so this sort of thing doesn't happen. It's not really doing anything important on the loading screen, so it shouldn't be hard to rewrite the page to do something nice in the event of scriptless browsers.

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