I wouldn't depend of the w3schools stats at all. After all, the site is for developers, not the average user.
In general, I agree with Pete. On Feb 10, 5:05 am, Jeztah <[email protected]> wrote: > I am writing a site that uses heavy prototype libraries + > scriptaculous + jQuery ... > > The issue i am having is a simple one .... > > The site is marketed on its ease of use due to certain techniques ive > developed but they rely on Javascript and wont work without it.... The > site still functions without javascript but some core functions cannot > be achieved .. by this i mean someone can still browse the site and > search it and do alot of things. > > So ive gone down the thinking process of redirecting people wihtout > javascript enabled or no javascript to a page on my site telling them > to enable javascript.... > > Now i know this is a big concern to alot of web developers as the norm > (mostly for me aswell) is make a functioning site then enhance the > Users Experiance with ajax/js technologies .... But my feeling is if > people dont start to force the issue of requiring javascript then the > web wont evolve into what it could become.... > > As of January 2008 95% of the browsers in the world had Javascript > turned on see herehttp://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp > .. and i am personally not bothered about the 5% that dont .. i also > know of a few major websites that demand javascript be turned on to > enter them . > > So my questions are .. > > A. Should we as developers be taking these leaps of faith and > demanding a better development environment for our client side > programming. > B. Would googlebot and other Search Engines follow my <noscript> > header redirect !! > > Hopefully this wont get flamed to much !! > > Thanks in advance > > Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
