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Ah, yes, the old "I like to turn away certain classes of customers because I don't think well of them!" approach to market share. That works well.
by apotheon 17y ago
Ah, yes, the old "I like to turn away certain classes of customers because I don't think well of them!" approach to market share. That works well.
- jacquesm 17y agoI don't have one opinion or another about the customers, all I know is that you can build a viable business without catering to everybody. 92+% of the visitors to the sites that I look after have java support, 97%+ have javascript. I don't think the remaining 3% are going to be the ones to make or break such an application. Try using facebook, youtube or any other number of sites with flash, java and javascript shut off.
- apotheon 17y ago> Try using facebook, youtube or any other number of sites with flash, java . . . shut off. Actually, I do visit those sites without Flash automatically playing in my browser. In fact, I use a script to download YouTube videos and play them locally with a media player. I'm not sure what Java has to do with being able to use Facebook or YouTube at all. JavaScript is pretty ubiquitous, but stuff like Google Maps still degrades usably for those who aren't using JavaScript (for instance), as do the sites and Web applications I design. I think that explicitly throwing away 3% of your potential users is pretty short-sighted, especially when it's for something as lame as "Well, they don't use JavaScript, and I could do this stuff with other technologies too." I wonder why people don't think of, for instance, the blind using screen readers when they utter platitudes about how the 3% don't matter.