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http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/ http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill/ does a great job explaining why Mozilla killed the checkbox for disabling JavaScript

• Grue3 13y ago
  No, it does a terrible job at explaining this. The browser's job is to display the webpage under the constraints set by the user, "javascript off" being one of the common constraints. If the page works incorrectly under this constraint, this is the problem of the webmaster who created it. The whole idea that Javascript is absolutely necessary for browsing is what's killing Internet with extremely slow websites and makes it insecure.
  • sp332 13y ago
    JavaScript is not slow. If I set a constraint "Don't use the letter 'e' on this page" and the text is garbled, is that the fault if the webmaster? Disabling the letter 'e' intentionally is very uncommon. If Firefox ships the option, they will have to support all the people who complain that pages are broken because they forgot or didn't know about the "feature."
  • zimpenfish 13y ago
    But when you say "one of the common constraints", do you have any figures for how common? How many people as a %age of Firefox users, for example, switch Javascript off? If it's less than 5%, removing the checkbox is a perfectly fine decision.