ASP.NET MVC, JSON & non JavaScript clients

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Published on 2008-11-26T09:23:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 11:03 UTC
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I need to ensure that an application I am developing is accessable and also works with JavaScript turned off. I just need a pointer to assist with the following.

I had 3 'chained' select boxes and I wanted JavaScript enabled clients to have a nice Ajax experience. I can easily write the required functionality to populate the chained boxes on the change event of the preceeding select using jQuery and JSON with a WCF service. However what about the non JavaScript client?

Would I wrap a submit next to the select and place these inside their own form to post back with a certain action or different querstring parameter? Can the same controller give me a partial JSON response as well as feeding the full HTML response. Can anyone point me to a good demo that utilises both JSON and normal HTTP posts to produce the same result in ASP.NET MVC. All ASP.NET MVC demo/examples I see forget about the non JavaScript enabled client.

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