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> Try using facebook, youtube or any other number of sites with flash, java . . . shut off. Actually, I do visit those sites without Flash automatically playin
by 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.