> True, it's a possibility a user could have JS turned off but it's very > very > uncommon for it to actually be turned off IME. > > I would imagine that the percentage of users who actually do this as a > matter of course is tiny (and also bored)
This is generally true, however I have had experience which caused me to reconsider. I work on a fairly high traffic retail ecommerce site (~150K pageviews/day) and I had an onClick event on our Add to Bag button that ran a little JS function and then submitted the form. We were getting complaints that people couldn't add any products to their shopping bag. I finally realized that their JS was turned off and so absolutely no events would be triggered. Needless to say this was not acceptable for us, even though it may have been 1% or less of our customers - these were potential buyers and we had to respect them. I ended up setting up server side validation in addition to the client side stuff we had in place. I put a <noscript> tag in the header that lets people know that their javascript is turned off, with a link that describes how to turn it on. In talking to some of these people, I found that they have no idea what javascript is, so it may be turned off at the LAN level, by a firewall or router configuration that they are not even aware of, or have any idea how to fix. -- Josh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269949 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
