From: rudy > the site is totally useless with javascript turned off
Hmmm. Rudy, my suggestion to you, as a user of the WWW, would be to stop disabling features of your browser that were developed to enhance your browsing experience. Then, as a developer, find a survey - or conduct one yourself, to find out how many average individuals disable Javascript in their browser, know they can turn it off, or even know what Javascript actually is. I've done a little survey of my own recently, which included an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (my wife) and the Director of IT for a multi-national corporation (my brother). All those surveyed were frequent users of the WWW and none of them had Javascript turned off. Some of them made a pretty accurate guess at how to disabling Javascript but none knew exactly how to do it. I submit that Javascript is not an evil creature laying in wait for the unsuspecting web surfer but rather a useful tool. Do you lock away your carpenter's hammer and use your shoe to drive nails because you heard tales of people who have smashed them thumbs? I doubt it. > so boo for using javascript to sniff my browser and then fail to deliver a > working stylesheet which just happens to contain eveything functional Despite me belief that Javascript is a viable tool, I agree here. I should have provided for the event of complete JS failure by leaving a latent style sheet. > but yay for not giving me the rude "Sorry, your browser does not meet > current W3C standards and needs to be updated to see this page properly." > message Try looking with NN4.7. Now that would be rude. > the site looks nice but for accessibility, i must give it a failing grade Then again, I did indicate that I was still working on the site. You can't fail me until I'm done. ;) Perry Gerenday http://www.webinitiative.net ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
