[thelist] xssi serving up separate css

[aardvark]

> From: "Paul Backhouse" <paul.backhouse at 2cs.com>
>
> I understand why people would want to turn javascript off, but don't
> you feel it limits the internet - it holds back programmers and

it doesn't limit the internet... all that stuff slows me down... people 
have good reasons to do it, too... and if i go to a site that doesn't 
work without JS, i go to another (and so goes my continuing quest 
for a replacement to the Dexter chukka)... and you know what, 
when i went car shopping almost three years ago, the sites that 
didn't run on my system didn't even get a visit from me in their 
showroom -- because i couldn't price a car and look at the 
features... the car i got was a direct result of how light their site 
was, since i was able to get more research done there....

> functionality - plus i avoid where ever i can using pop up windows - i
> find they cramp the screen and plus you can get a lot of rubbish on
> other sites, but lets face it if you're programming for a corporate
> site with their standard PC builds you're going to be programming for
> IE (mainly - there are exceptions as with everything in life), and 8
> out of the 10 users don't even know how to empty their cache let alone
> turn js off.

heh, we have a client with 10 offices around the world and 1,000 
staff... they standardized on NN4.x with no JS enabled and no plug-
ins... part of the reason we got the job is because when they said 
that, we weren't fazed, it didn't impact the project cost, timeline, or 
deliverable...

a lot of corps turn off plug-ins and JS as a precaution...

> we live in a world that is geared to change yet we try and restrict
> our selves in one of the fastest changing environments in the world -
> where will it end?

actually, i surf the way that's fastest for me... a new window on 
each click, all plug-ins disabled, images turned off in two browsers, 
no JS... and i love it... it's so much faster...

i surf for info, though... if i want to go to an art site and enjoy the 
eye-candy, i absolutely turn that stuff back on...