[thelist] Who really turns off JavaScript?

[Chris at globet.com]

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> I know that some schools and other public organizations do 
> not allow Javascript, but I do not think that's the real 
> problem - the problem seems to be rather that a lot of public 
> facilities around here run stone age browsers on antediluvian 
> hardware with legacy operating systems, and while these 
> machines technically support some sort Javascript they are 
> unlikely to execute AJAX scripts and stuff like that properly 

Aside from who uses what, it is also simply good application design to produce javascript that degrades gracefully. The host application for a publicly available scripted application is not something that developers can control. Regardless of whether a developer believes that there is a statistically high number of users with a certain host application in a certain configuration, a good scripted application will gracefully handle any host environment.

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Chris Marsh
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