I have JS disabled, and only enable it for sites which I decide I need it working.
Due to the way I work, I often have hundreds of browser tabs open and I can leave them open for weeks with JS off. I also find it educational to see which sites have non-functional forms because they have used JS only to drive them, or who's layout is totally governed by multimedia For example, this last month we were looking into buying a car, and the only conclusion I could come to, is that most car manufacturers are not interested in selling cars, rather than they are failing media outlet wannabes. Sven -- Consulting wiki Engineer Sven Dowideit - http://fosiki.com A WikiRing Partner - http://wikiring.com Public key - http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Sven+Dowideit&op=index&exact=on David Lane wrote: > Given the increased number of threats and the availability of slick > script blocker extensions for Firefox like NoScript > (http://noscript.net/) it's only going to get more common, particularly > among security conscious people. I certainly use it, only enabling > Javascript for a site I'm visiting when I can see what benefit it has to > me. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 07:33 +1100, Jessica Enders wrote: > >> Hi Pascal >> >> In the JavaScript/Accessibility/form validation discussion you >> mention "the growing number of users who purposefully disable >> JavaScript". I'm always curious just how many people this is. >> >> Do you, or does anyone else, have any statistics on this? Is there a >> reason you describe it as a "growing number"? >> >> Any information greatly appreciated. >> >> ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
