Trace - 6:54 pm on Oct 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

For one, there is always the possibility a post may come up in a search out of context and even though you've heard it a million times, it may not be obvious to whoever finds it.

That's actually something I hadn't thought of and it makes a lot of sense, especially for these boards. It made me realize that my question in the first place was wrong. It shouldn't be why do we always specify that it won't work with JavaScript disabled rather why are we obligated to?

If you type "http://www.google.com" into NN1 you're going to get the following message;

No Viewer Configured for File Type: text/html

At some point down the line, HTML became the norm and we don't specify requirements on viewing HTML pages. When is it going to be the norm for JavaScript? Obviously everyone has a JavaScript capable browser... shouldn't that make it the norm?

Edit:

What about mobile devices? Do you know if those have JavaScript enabled? How about screen readers for blind users? Making an assumption that anyone who does not have JS enabled means they turned it off themselves is a bad assumption.

That's also a good point and again something I didn't think of. Another good reason to start a thread like this. :)

And about the whole Target thing... I haven't got a clue what you guys are talking about. Off to do some Googling.

[edited by: Trace at 6:58 pm (utc) on Oct. 9, 2007]