I think he was saying that while maybe 5% of users have cookies turned off, and 5% of users have Javascript turned off, it's probably the same 5%. So if you used Javascript to detect if cookies were off, it wouldn't work for most of the people who actually had cookies turned off.
As to why they do that, well, it's up to them. Some for security, and as another person noted the web browsers available for the disabled often have these sorts of limitations. Indeed, Javascript would almost always be pointless for a blind person. On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 15:59, Tim Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:11:43 +0100, Philipp Siegert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >I don't think that Javascript is a good idea to solve this problem. Most > >people I know disable cookies for privacy reasons. > > Are you serious? "Most people" you know disable cookies? I don't think I know > a single person who does so. I thought the whole ridiculous cookie scare had > finally blown over, and good riddance to it. It's a red herring. > > >They often disable Javascript for security reasons, too. > > That's just boneheaded. Javascript lives in a restricted environment. It > can't get out. It can't read or write files. Java is an entirely different > story, but disabling Javascript serves no purpose other than to make ones web > experience more painful. > > > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
