[Sigia-l] "Who Really Turns Off JavaScript?"

[Listera]

Terrence Wood:

> 1. Legal obligation (e.g. 508 etc)
> 2. Accessible content for all is a basic tenent of the WWW.

Are you saying JavaScript is flat-out incompatible with accessibility?
 
> Here are 5 cases where javascript is on , but the you - the developer -
> may not get the result you expect:

There are gazillion other ways that a developer can screw up and not get the
results he expects. What exactly has that got to do with JavaScript per se?
If, for example, you use JavaScript to fire off pop-ups regularly as a
baseline for your UI, there's no point in blaming JavaScript for the idiotic
approach taken in consideration of the many people who disable pop-ups.
That's bad strategy/design/coding/markup, no matter what the language of
interaction is. 
 
> 4. I am savvy and selectively turn off parts of js.

Please. The number of  those users would be statistically negligible. If a
user deliberately tries not to take advantage of your app, there's not much
you can do.
 
> 5. I am a novice. I can use a back button, but the 'flashy' bits are
> beyond me.

No idea what this means or how it's related to JavaScript.

---- 
Ziya

Best Practices,
For when you've run out of your own ideas and context.