[thelist] Very nice trick to save bandwidth.

Ryan Finley RyanF at SonicFoundry.com
Fri Jun 8 13:59:38 CDT 2001


First off, maybe only 10-20% of people actually KNOW what javascript is, let
alone know or care about turning it off.

But we can detect if you have Javascript turned off...no need to penalize
the paranoid.

	Ryan Finley
	President - SurveyMonkey.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mason [mailto:data at data1701d.com]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:40 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Very nice trick to save bandwidth.


At 11:30 AM 6/8/01, Ryan Finley wrote:
>Compare the sizes of the following:
>
>http://www.acidplanet.com/Lounge/lounge.asp
>(122k)
>
>http://www.acidplanet.com/Lounge/lounge_javascript.asp
>(28k)
>
>Using javascipt to render the repeating tables client-side has made quite
>the difference!

But of course now when I and the 10-20% (pick your favorite source) of 
those surfing with JS turned off cruise by, we don't see most of the page 
content.  Bummer.

Bill Mason
data at data1701d.com
Dateline: Starfleet
http://www.data1701d.com
http://profile.guru.com/billmason


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