Re: Pop-up window<Javascript?>

>>>>>
Simply put, they turn ON their JavaScript. People who don't use
JavaScript
for their browsing experience are the same people who don't use their
A/C in
the summer. Meaning, if you're already paying for it why not use it?
<<<<<

There are number of reasons to turn off JavaScript. One of the main ones
does not really have to do with the browser, but rather with the
rendering of HTML in email. That has been an open sore with Outlook for
some time. The other exploits using JavaScript have basically died
before they were born. The exploits are or have been there but not
really used much. However, the public awareness means that people turn
off JavaScript.

Other reasons include the fact that about 30 percent of the major sites
use some form of pop-up windows. No, I'm not talking about the ones
where someone clicks and up comes a definition in another window, but
those where a single window pops up. Not to mention the ones where you
mistype a URL and end up at a porn site that descides to give you about
20 or 30 (I once counted 26 at one site) windows, some in koisk mode,
and each time you click to close, up comes another of the dang things...

All from having JavaScript enabled.

Other times, you get tired of some of the JavaScript antics, and they do
sometimes crash browsers, and so you turn it off.

There are just times, like hitting a pop-up windows hades site or having
really fancy JavaScript crash my browser, that I do a simple click from
the menu and turn it off.

However, most people use MSIE. IT IS difficult to turn of JavaScript in
MSIE..it is simply not easy.

Don't get me wrong. I have used JavaScript pop-up windows. I use
JavaScript DHTML, like drop down menus and mouseovers. And generally I
like them.

One little fact: about 10 percent of all the people out there with
JavaScript capable browsers, and I AM NOT talking about older browsers,
do not have JavaScript enabled. They have turned it off.

The real key to a good web site is to use JavaScript to enhance the
ability to use a site, rather than to make it a must to simply use the
site.
-- 


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	''You might as well fall flat on your face as 
	  lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
   "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three 
          elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest." 
 		- G'Kar  "Survivors"                                  

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