But I can't help wondering if these things, and others mentioned, are done by people who *know* about these things. In my mind, that is a small minority. Most likely only developers. Do the 'Bob-The-Office-Worker', and the 'Mary-The-Surfing-Homemaker' (or vise-versa ;) ) types really know about this stuff?
Tom,
Bottom line: it doesn't really matter what populations you think are turning off javascript the most. "Even" if it's "only developers" you still need to engineer your pages to be both accessible and functional whether scripting is turned on or off. Just as you need to make your pages graceful enough that they can continue to be useful in the absence of CSS, image display, mouse peripherals, and human visual perception. We don't know what sorts of users and user agents will be coming to our pages, and there's a great appeal -- if not a mandate -- to make them useable by everyone. Fortunately it's feasible, thanks to the communities of bright, problem-solving, self-critical thinkers we've got in WSG, CSS-D, and other groups.
Cheers,
Paul
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