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You're obviously not the only one who deactivates javascript by default, but a quick google brought up numbers of around 1% for users with javascript deactivate
by smeyer 12y ago
You're obviously not the only one who deactivates javascript by default, but a quick google brought up numbers of around 1% for users with javascript deactivated. I can see why a lot of developers wouldn't be too concerned about that 1%.
- dietrichepp 12y agoThe 1% includes a lot of crawlers, although not Google's.
- einrealist 12y agoThat is sad in a way. I expected the number to be much higher. I am interested in to know why the majority does not use Javascript blockers. Here is a source for the 1%: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missing-out-on-javascript-enhancement/ https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
- vanadium 12y agoIt used to be that a significant portion of that 1% (and those that also turned off CSS) were from those leveraging screenreaders some years back; with the uptake of ARIA and better screenreaders, not so much the case anymore. So there was once a definite use case for supporting them in a B2C context, at least. You still see it in .edu/.gov/.mil quite a bit as a requirement (Sec 508, et al).
- idlewan 12y agoThere's a lot more people than 1% that sometimes have javascript disabled: EVERYONE has javascript disabled until the js payload is downloaded. Which is extremely important on high-latency or slow network connections.