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Their research was conducted in 2013, so I do wonder how applicable it is today. For example, as I recall Blackberries didn't support Javascript in most cases,
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
Their research was conducted in 2013, so I do wonder how applicable it is today. For example, as I recall Blackberries didn't support Javascript in most cases, and there were probably still a lot of those in active use as of 2013. Not so much in 2021.
- rhdunn 5y agoI used lynx on a computer of mine a while ago when an upgrade broke the login. I could switch to a different terminal to do that, find the issue, then run the commands to fix it. I've also used the Raspberry Pi as a computer in the past and used Dillo (or similar browser) as it was lightweight.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI don’t doubt that there are still plenty of users on browsers without Javascript (many of them here on HN), but I wonder if they would still constitute 0.9% of visits.
- spookthesunset 5y agoProbably <0.1%. If you sorted your site traffic by visits per user agent, it probably would be lost in the long tail of noise.
- grayhatter 5y agoI mean if you consider your uncommon users noise, I kinda get why you wouldn't want to make any effort to support them.
- jlokier 5y agoI encountered the "your ISP injects broken Javascript into all HTTP pages" problem around 2016. Someone thought I had done a poor job on a site I built for them. It turned out the Javascript on the page wasn't from the site I built, it was injected by the ISP, one of the UK's largest mobile data providers. We fixed the problem by switching to HTTPS.