Bookmark: "Everyone has JavaScript, right?"

2022-03-01

Bookmarked:

kryogenix.org

Stuart Langridge presents this simple, yet convincing flow chart to illustrates all the various things that may go wrong as users request a web site requiring JavaScript code.

As with technology use vs. non-use, working JavaScript in a browser is not a binary dichotomy (script support on vs. off), but a fluid scale with various degrees of support. A good designer and developer takes this reality into account and builds good experiences immune to such aspects.

For some evidence in form of hard numbers:

How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?

gds.blog.gov.uk

Bookmark: “How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancement?”

This is a 9 years old article. Yet, while the quantitative numbers may have shifted in one direction or the other, the qualitative statements stand unchanged: it cannot – and must not – be assumed that all JavaScript code is executed for every visitor of a website. […]

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