[WEB4LIB] RE: HTML Referring?

[Dan Lester]

Thursday, October 24, 2002, 7:58:17 AM, you wrote:
TD> At 09:43 AM 10/24/2002, Dan Lester wrote:

>>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".

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

Interesting data, and a timely reminder of a site I'd forgotten about.
I'm one who is not worried about NS users.  We specifically state that
we support IE only, although our sites work in NS, with the exception
of some licensed databases that have problems with NS or Notes
browsers.  Of course I can't do anything about that.  But if a user
calls with a problem, the first question is "what browser are you
using" and if it is a non-IE response, we request that s/he open up IE
and see if the problem still exists.

Yes, I know this behavior is anathema to some of you.  But, it works
for us, and we've yet to have a complaint about it from a user.

dan


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