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Graceful degradation has been a thing for a while and of the minority of websites that actually require javascript for their main use rather than for some flash
by ben0x539 15y ago
Graceful degradation has been a thing for a while and of the minority of websites that actually require javascript for their main use rather than for some flashy UI enhancements or advertisements, plenty remember to go "you need javascript for this site". And you pretty much have to do sneaky things with a flash object to begin with to hide the really obvious button to enable it that flashblock substitutes.
If the site just silently fails, I'll often enough assume it's just broken and move on rather than try to debug it.
I'm most likely not the target audience for this product in particular so I don't want to be snarky or anything, I guess I'm mostly surprised that so many web developers and HN submitters still browse with permissive vanilla browser settings.
- nl 15y agoI guess I'm mostly surprised that so many web developers and HN submitters still browse with permissive vanilla browser settings. My point is that you shouldn't be. I've never heard a compelling argument so to why anyone should change their settings. (I do have some sympathy for the argument that people should change the default blocking of third-party cookies in Safari to allow them, and in the pre-XP SP3 days changing the defaults in IE was sensible at times, but these are exceptions)