If you are looking for a simple way to provide feedback to those users who have disabled JavaScript in Adobe Reader, here’s a simple approach. This works best on a flowed form as the text and space you are going to display to the user should ideally appear when script is disabled and disappear when script is enabled. Technically if a user has script disabled you can’t use script to have a section of text appear or disappear so you need to have the text appear by default and then use script to have the object disappear.
In this example, the “JavaScript is Disabled…” message appears to the user only when JavaScript has been disabled. When script is enabled the text is not displayed as the initialize code “this.presence = "hidden";” causes the text itself to disappear. If your form is Flowed then the space that the text appeared in will also be removed. With a positional page, the text will disappear but the blank space will remain.
To download the sample: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/checkforjavascriptpdfsample/
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