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Subject: 
Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
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Date: 
Fri, 11 May 2001 21:42:32 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
In lugnet.lego.direct, Tomas Clark writes:
Protective undergarments notwithstanding, I have just checked on Netscape
4.75 for Linux (pretty darn close to what Chris was using), and the same bug
is present. If you turn off Javascript you also turn off stylesheets, even
if it looks like stylesheets are checked... So Chris, in that particular
browser you'll have to turn on Javascript as well if you want to use
stylesheets and view legible Build pages -- at least until we can patch in
the no-stylesheets fix.

I'd vote for a no-javascript fix.  Until Lego's website is viewable without
it, you're alienating people who don't have Javascript due to platform or
security issues.

Does anyone have any reliable stats on how many people are left out (as a
percentage) due to platform issues, due to using obsolete browsers (perhaps
for perfectly legitimate reasons) and due to running with restrictions
turned on?

Where I am going with this is that I am wondering exactly who is being
marginalized by use of JavaScript??? (and I have been in the "has to work
with IE and NS 3.0" camp for a while now but am thinking of giving up.
Partly because I myself have something neat I want to do in JS... I will
have an alternate page too, of course.

Not sure where to FUT but probably doesn't belong here if this thread goes
in this direction



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  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) There are a couple good sources of stats like this. Statmarket.com used to be one of them, but now you have to pay to get access to their stats. After they changed to pay-only, a couple handy pages like these popped up: (URL) links to lots of (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) I'd vote for a no-javascript fix. Until Lego's website is viewable without it, you're alienating people who don't have Javascript due to platform or security issues. Whatever happened to plain old regular HTML, anyway? Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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