From: Chetan Crasta "About 1% of Yahoo's visitors had Javascript disabled (2% for Yahoo USA) "
[-CM-] % of Yahoo visitors disabling js canNOT be used to extrapolate % of all web users disabling js. I haven't visited Yahoo in years and I'm sure that's true of a large % of web users. I also suspect that the type of visitor who would disable js is not the type of visitor that is attracted to Yahoo. Then there's information buried in the comments at http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-users-have-javas cript-disabled/ that Yahoo redirects mobile users to a different page, so that also skews the results. Within my group of contacts, about 30% block JavaScript all the time, probably another 10%+ block js some of the time. You'd have to dig into what % of your target market is also Yahoo visitors and only if that is a large percentage should Yahoo visitors be used an indicator for % of your site's visitors will have js disabled. Web visitors are not homogeneous. But that's not all you should consider. Nothing on the web stays the same. All it will take is another widespread js security problem then % of visitors disabling js would increase. Or maybe another popular mobile device will ship with js disabled as default, or a browser with js disabled as a default, or who knows? Christie Mason ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
