Agreed, if people have "real" long term usage statistics that they can
share to support the claim that Javascript use is in decline, and not
focus on very one-sided arguments of "personal use" or "everyone i know"
then I'd be interested to hear. Until that time, or my own analysis
supports these claims (which they certainly do not) I will remain
completely sceptical.
Oh and arguments over technical solutions that provide the ability to
limit Javascript usage and talking about "increasing threats" etc are
not terribly insightful as these are the same arguments that were made
years ago and its a very old and unsubstantiated argument (for example,
I can assure you that the large array of anti-Flash extensions for
Firefox has made bugger all impact on the market penetration of Adobe's
Flash Player or its usage).
David
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
David Lane wrote:
Given the increased number of threats and the availability of slick
script blocker extensions for Firefox like NoScript
(http://noscript.net/) it's only going to get more common, particularly
among security conscious people. I certainly use it, only enabling
Javascript for a site I'm visiting when I can see what benefit it has to
me.
As good as it is to hear anecdotal evidence from expert users such as
list members here, I'd say it's much more important to bring some actual
live user stats to the table. Most "normal" users don't even know that
"the internet" is not just the blue E on their desktop, or what
javascript is, or how to install extensions, or what security threats
are. Heck, most don't even know that they can zoom/text resize/print
most of the time, without having a widget or icon on the actual pages.
P
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