[WEB4LIB] RE: HTML Referring?

[Thomas Dowling]

At 09:43 AM 10/24/2002, Dan Lester wrote:

>Thursday, October 24, 2002, 6:59:05 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> > 6. Client Side Includes (with Java[EMCA]Script)
>
>
>TD> If all of your site navigation is included with client-side scripting, 
>what
>TD> message do you give users with client-side scripting disabled?
>
>      No argument with Thomas's point.  But I'm curious if anyone has
>      any sort of figures on how many "regular folks" turn off client
>      side scripting, or surf with images turned off.  I know some of
>      the list members do, but I don't consider list members to be a
>      representative sample of "real users".
>
>      dan


With a heaping spoonful of caveats about the quality of the sample, 
thecounter.com shows 10% of hits with no JavaScript in September 2002: 
<http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2002/September/javas.php>.  By comparison, 
they show Netscape 4 at 2%, and we still have people falling over 
themselves to accomodate NS4.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu