[thelist] Theory Question: Client Side or Server Side

[Jonathan]

This has come up before...

http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20021104/127763.html
 
I stick to my guns about core functionality.  You really shouldn't be
implementing anything that will break a site on a production system
(especially one that makes money), whether it's 1%, 6%, 10% or 12%.

Even at 0.3%, with 300+ millions users as a conservative estimate, that's
only 1 million people who will be affected.   So don't worry about it. ;-)

Jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Karl Bunyan
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: pixelmech at yahoo.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Theory Question: Client Side or Server Side
> 
> I'd be interested to know if there are any general stats 
> showing the proportion of users who do have JavaScript turned 
> off. TheCounter.com lists it as 6%, which is a significant 
> proportion, but I don't know enough about how the code they 
> use to gather the information to judge whether that's accurate.
> 
> Karl
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Dell'Aringa
> > Sent: 10 April 2004 16:37
> > To: Scott Brady; thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] Theory Question: Client Side or Server Side
> > 
> > I have NEVER been faced with such a choice. I've been in 
> this industry 
> > for 9 years. And again, I'm NOT saying don't have it on the server 
> > side too. All I'm saying is that *in most
> > cases* the percentage of users who will have JS turned off while 
> > visiting a given site will be extremly low,  to the point of almost 
> > nil. Yet often we tend to go overboard in our concerns for 'users 
> > without js enabled' to the point where we may not make the best 
> > decision for the 99.9% of your users and the app in general.
> > 
> > All I'm saying is don't go overboard in your conern for 
> 'non JS users' 
> > and gimp your user experience.
> > 
> > Tom
> 
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