Java/JavaScript Disabling

[John M. Morris]

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 rjtiess at juno.com wrote:

> I'm curious to learn if anyone here disables
> JavaScript and/or Java and, more importantly,
> your reason(s) for doing this.

I turn off Java because 95% of applets are an utter waste of time under
the best conditions, combined with the instability of Java in some of the 
X versions of Navigator makes it an even more compelling argument. Turning
it back on again for the remaining 5% is not that much bother.

As for JavaScript, I used to kill it too because of instability problems,
but those seem to have settled down and so many idiot webmasters have
replaced the traditional A tag with Javascript that flaming webmasters
(Althoughg I did convince C|Net to stop the wretched practice) became more
bother than leaving JS enabled. 

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