Useful link! I think one needs to be cautious, though, about giving much weight to any such survey ... I couldn't quickly find a description of how thecounter.com gathers their stats, but such sites often use either their own access records or combine the access records of a few other sites. Thus, you're seeing how many users *of that site* have javascript enabled--useful if you believe that your site will have a similar demographic, but that isn't guaranteed. If you know (for example) that your site will be used by visually impaired users, then you'd better go find a survey of javascript enablement for *that* demographic.
This issue has been rather on my mind of late, because I design web applications used primarily by university-based biologists. We made some design decisions based on general browser stats (most users have IE, most have a relatively recent javascript version enabled, etc)--then it turned out that university labs have a radically different base of installed operating systems (and thus browsers) than does the general public. Linux and Mac actually seem to dominate ... so back to the drawing board on some of those decisions. Brings home how essential it is to know *your* users.
Amanda Birmingham Web Application Developer
At 12:11 PM 1/8/2004 -0500, you wrote:
I know I'm coming into this late, but here is a statistic (not sure if it's accurate or not) of the percentage of JavaScript users:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/December/javas.php
HTH, Will
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