The W3Schools website states that 10% of users do not have JavaScript but I do not know the methodology behind this measurement nor the demographics of the audience. Some of their stats are wildly different from the other sources we use, and their figure of 25% market share for Firefox is clearly not representative of the market as a whole. I suspect their figures are purely or mostly from visitors to their own site.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/May/javas.php gives a figure of the order of 5% although their figures don't quite add up so there may also be another couple of percent with old versions that cannot be relied on to support all the features built into new sites. I believe these figures are drawn from a much larger and more diverse audience and as such should be more realistic. Earlier this week I was discussing this issue with a web developer at a London hospital and he told me that JavaScript is disabled by means of Group Policies on all of their 1500 PCs. Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hassan Schroeder Sent: 09 June 2006 16:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] UPDATE TO: Using PHP to hide email, script made, testing needed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think the most recent stats quote a figure of only 75% or so - 1 in > 4 are not going to be happy! Do you have a citation for that figure? Because I've been working with Web technology since before JavaScript existed, and I've never seen so much as *one* non-technical user with JS disabled. And I realize there are IT departments that disable active content company-wide -- but I've never been in such a company, nor seen any figures on how widespread that practice actually is... -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com opinion: webtuitive.blogspot.com dream. code. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
