Re: FLASH: 17% turned off Javascript [was Back button javascript ]

[Helen Triolo]

unique wrote:

> 

> At 14.05 -0400 2000.04.03, Jefferis wrote:

> 

> >Apparently statistics are showing somwhere between 8 and 17% have

> >javascript turned off or unavailable for their browsingof the web.

> >

> >I am wondering how that statistic plays into Flash development.  Assuming

> >someone turns it off for their surfing, even though they have the

> >ability, for whatever reason, any back button or javascript action in

> >Flash is dead, correct?

> >

> >How does that 17% play into the margins for developing Flash web content?

> >  Are they more likely NOT to be using flash anyway?

> 

> ... etc.

> 

> Very dismayed to come back here and discover that no one seems to

> have a CLUE or INTEREST in this topic.

> 

> NO ONE care except me and Jeff?

> 


Yeah, Ken, you know we care!  But this issue isn't peculiar to

Flash--every time you design any kind of web page you have to balance

the added functionality you get from Javascript (eg, image mouseovers)

against the knowledge that some of your viewers will have it turned

off.  I don't think there's a correlation between having javascript

turned off and having flash disabled, except for those who are

mistakenly paranoid about something taking control of their browser

(java--oooooh, activex----oooooh, javascript, sounds like java---better

turn it all off!)


Given the choice, server-side solutions like asp and cgi are almost

always a better choice than javascript (or in the case of Flash,

scriptless detection), but for straight html pages, you kinda have to go

with Javascript for any sort of interactivity.  Same kind of choice you

make when choosing between bitmaps and vector graphics, IMO--reasons for

going with either, but you still have to make the choice.  If you want

to be completely safe and viewable by all, never use javascript.  If you

want your pictures to be perfectly viewable by all in flash, never use

bitmaps.  The joys of web design.  On that note, I'm off to enjoy the

rest of this beautiful Friday evening!  Have a good one, all.


Regards,

Helen

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