| Re: how to create (open) a dialog box [message #175159 is a reply to message #175157] |
Thu, 18 August 2011 01:06   |
sheldonlg
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On 8/17/2011 4:50 PM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <8880046(dot)SEqChMirdb(at)PointedEars(dot)de>,
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
>> That design approach is called graceful degradation.
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> So apps should be designed so they still run if someone removes the
> processor from the computer? Were you always this mad?
His basis is that you want to reach as many people as possible and a
certain percentage of them will turn off javascript. Now I ask, what is
that percentage? If you are selling something, how much added revenue
would be gained from having that percentage reach you versus the added
costs for writing AND DEBUGGING AND MAINTAINING a dual system.
Putting into google "percentage of people who turn off javascript" we
get from the very first link:
"According to data collected in 2007, 1.04% have it disabled in the EU,
and 3.05% have it disabled in the US."
So, between one and three percent turn off javascript. I call that no
BFD. I'll put a message in the script for the "page" that javascript is
required for this "page". It just doesn't pass the cost/benefit analysis.
(I, myself, am in the 97% of the US users).
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Shelly
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