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

[Skot Nelson]

On Nov-8-2005, at 7:42 AM, tOM Trottier wrote:

> All it takes is one good horror story to cause
> users to  flood to turn  off scripting.

For a while, until the memory of the event is no longer fresh sadly.

> If you can do what you want by CSS or
> HTML, that's  safer and  preferable -
> especially for menus!

This is an EXTREMELY important statement.

In many many cases, I find the use of Javascript to be a bit of a cop- 
out, or some form of job security created by integrating complex,  
undocumented JavaScript functionality into an app.

I readily admit to a personal bias against JavaScript which is  
essentially framed by Tom's argument.
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Scott Nelson
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