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There is a certain irony in requiring Javascript to view a post about not ignoring the 10% of the use cases.

by mirkules 13y ago

zdw 13y ago
More like you're in a different 10% than what gist.io is focusing on.
- mirkules 13y ago
  Considering that the gist.io post is (edit: was -- it seems to be deleted) about not neglecting the 10%, doing one thing and doing it well, and that gist.io focuses on delivering medium-sized content blurbs (between a tweet and a blog post), I feel my criticism is appropriate.
rodion_89 13y ago
According to Yahoo 99% of visitors have JavaScript enabled. http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-disabled-14121.html http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-d...
- vacri 13y ago
  Yahoo's audience: general public This article's audience: software developers Given that the article is in English as well, and English countries have higher levels of disabled javascript than other countries from that report, and that the target audience is a very specific type of technical focus rather than the general public, I'd hazard that the original point stands. Not to mention that if some crawlers don't access javascript, you'll serve up nothing to the relevant search index.
  - gfodor 13y ago
    You'll hazard that 1 out of 10 people accessing this webpage have Javascript disabled?
    - deleted 13y ago
      [deleted]
    - kd0amg 13y ago
      Or use something like NoScript
    - yareally 13y ago
      I disable it for sites that abuse javascript. I'm guessing I am not the only one that does. Probably quite a few people would do that outside of us developers if they knew they could (or knew the a site's major problem was derived from it). Not inferring anything about this particular site, just that there's good reasons to turn it off at times. I normally browse with it on by default though, but I'll blacklist it for sites that cause my browser to slow down or do other things that are detrimental to the user experience.
jabbernotty 13y ago
I totally agree. Though I haven't read the article yet :) I can't even get anything to show after enabling it for that page. I'm not sure if it's gone or if I'm failing at something :)
nwh 13y ago
Don't know about you, but I can't even view the page, JavaScript or no JavaScript. "Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry."
tingletech 13y ago
https://gist.github.com/tyre/5561992 https://gist.github.com/tyre/5561992

There is a certain irony in requiring Javascript to view a post about not ignoring the 10% of the use cases.

zdw 13y ago

More like you're in a different 10% than what gist.io is focusing on.

mirkules 13y ago
Considering that the gist.io post is (edit: was -- it seems to be deleted) about not neglecting the 10%, doing one thing and doing it well, and that gist.io focuses on delivering medium-sized content blurbs (between a tweet and a blog post), I feel my criticism is appropriate.

rodion_89 13y ago

According to Yahoo 99% of visitors have JavaScript enabled. http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-disabled-14121.html http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/many-users-javascript-d...

vacri 13y ago
Yahoo's audience: general public This article's audience: software developers Given that the article is in English as well, and English countries have higher levels of disabled javascript than other countries from that report, and that the target audience is a very specific type of technical focus rather than the general public, I'd hazard that the original point stands. Not to mention that if some crawlers don't access javascript, you'll serve up nothing to the relevant search index.
- gfodor 13y ago
  You'll hazard that 1 out of 10 people accessing this webpage have Javascript disabled?
  - deleted 13y ago
    [deleted]
  - kd0amg 13y ago
    Or use something like NoScript
  - yareally 13y ago
    I disable it for sites that abuse javascript. I'm guessing I am not the only one that does. Probably quite a few people would do that outside of us developers if they knew they could (or knew the a site's major problem was derived from it). Not inferring anything about this particular site, just that there's good reasons to turn it off at times. I normally browse with it on by default though, but I'll blacklist it for sites that cause my browser to slow down or do other things that are detrimental to the user experience.

jabbernotty 13y ago

I totally agree. Though I haven't read the article yet :) I can't even get anything to show after enabling it for that page. I'm not sure if it's gone or if I'm failing at something :)

nwh 13y ago

Don't know about you, but I can't even view the page, JavaScript or no JavaScript. "Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry."

tingletech 13y ago

https://gist.github.com/tyre/5561992 https://gist.github.com/tyre/5561992