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Originally Posted by Frankie
Sorry, but I don't believe that at all.
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Just because you don't believe it doesn't change the fact that it is true. They settled out of court so no one knows how many millions the actual settlement was but the reason that they settled out of court was that it had become obvious that they would have had to pay many millions if it did go to court. Admittedly they were a large retail chain who could afford to pay out that money but another part of the settlement was that they had to get their site rewritten so that it was functional without JavaScript.
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Originally Posted by Frankie
Ludicrous reasoning. Only some 1.3% has JS disabled. And at least half the sites contain javascript, if not much more.
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That statement is meaningless. With most sites if you turn off JavaScript then the site will still work - just it will take longer to use it as you will need to go through more steps - such as actually submitting a form before finding out if it contains errors. You haven't even bothered to see if you can find one of the rare sites that doesn't work without JavaScript but have simply decided that sites that use it require it - which is almost completely wrong.
Most sites use progressive enhancement so that the site works without JavaScript and where the JavaScript makes it even easier to use. Turning off JavaScript on a site that uses it only breaks the site in the rare case where the site wasn't properly designed in the first place. Looks like you are planning on adding your site to that small percentage of sites that break if you turn JavaScript off.
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Originally Posted by Frankie
No, they don't. IE and FF don't (haven't checked the others).
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Just because you don't know where a setting is in a browser doesn't mean that the browser doesn't have that option.
See
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/c...p=trusted_site for step by step instructions on how to selectively enable/disable JavaScript on a site by site basis in both of those browsers.
To adjust on a site by site basis in Google Chrome click the document or padlock symbol at the start of the address and you get a dropdown list of all the settings that you can change for that site including turning JavaScript on or off.
In Opera you just right click on the web page and select "Edit Site Preferences".
I am not sure how you control it in Safari but the chart at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers indicates that Safari also supports it as do many of the less popular browsers that make up that last 1% of web users. So those using a browser that can't control JavaScript on a site by site basis is a small fraction of 1%.
Obviously your mind is made up and your sites are going to join the small group of sites that are broken when JavaScript is turned off. No point in continuing this discussion when you seem to always disbelieve everything that is true and only believe those false things that you have decided are true (but which everyone who bothers to actually check knows are false).