Chetan Crasta wrote:
Javascript can considerably improve the aesthetics,
Not for a site that's properly-designed in the first place.
usability
That is one point where JS can provide functionality.
and semantics of a site,
JS should have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEMANTICS of a site. That should
be in the HTML where it belongs, NOT IN JS.
so it would be a pity if one disables it just to
avoid the odd bad apple.
There's a hell of a lot of "bad apples" out there - tons of malicious
sites, scammers even cracking into supposedly-trustworthy services like
akamai.net and planting attacks. So it's not the "odd bad apple."
I never had to disable Javascript because good content is found on
well-designed sites. The sites with the ugly Javascript are the ones
that I wouldn't visit more than once, with or without Javascript.
I've been on a number of sites where I had to disable their CSS so I
could read their content. Sadly, a number of those sites were the home
pages of web design firms!
~Chetan
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Christie Mason <cma...@managersforum.com> wrote:
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
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David
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