I can see that html5 will allow the heavy reliance on java to lessen. but for now its hugely prevalent in the web, and i don't think that's going to change to much until html5 gets a better adoption rate.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Technomage Hawke <[email protected]> wrote: > java presents some more specific problems for me as well. there are sites > that don't bother to turn on the accessibility modules in java (which is most > of them) causing me to get a "blank scroll area" whenever I land on them. I > have even tried braille output on those sites only to get nothing. between > java and flash, I am one very frustrated net user. as for spam, I use > gmail's filter routines to auto-delete anything I don't want. it certainly > keeps my mail volume from getting outrageous. > > -eric > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > >>> On Nov 13, 2011 9:53 PM, "der.hans" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I first heard of newegg via PLUG many years ago. I've been mostly happy >>>> with company, but I'm tired of not being able to navigate the site without >>>> enabling javascript. >> >> AFAICT, JS is pretty much *required* for large parts of the WWW as it >> currently exists. Blame this on the marketing people ("We want to track >> *everything*!") and people who want to do all kinds of Cool Web 2.0 Things >> even when they're not useful. I have to turn JS on for my phone company's >> site to pay my phone bill. My bank's site is just as bad; no JS, no accounts >> page. >> >>>> TigerDirect is out because of spammy messenging. >> From: Kevin Fries <[email protected]> >>> I don't know about JavaScript, but have you tried mwave? >> >> If you buy anything from mwave, they'll put you on a mailing list, and you'll >> get spam every few days. At least it's reasonably easy to unsubscribe. >> >> -- >> Matt G / Dances With Crows >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
