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  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
(...) The problem is that the default foreground color is black, and the page has a black background but does not specify a foreground color. There should be a <FONT COLOR> tag in the <NOSCRIPT> area. (...) However, the number of users who disable (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
(...) *shrug* Until four things happen: (1) Javascript becomes less of a security/stability risk, and (2) ECMA officially becomes an integral part of the HTML standard, and (3) Microsoft and Mozilla and whoever else can agree on a common DOM, and (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
(...) It hasn't been a risk for a long time. Some early browsers had Javascript security risks, but they were fixed years ago. It's nothing like the ActiveX risks in MSIE - but luckily few sites use ActiveX, so that's safe to turn off (if you must (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
(...) I checked stats on my site (just my stuff, since the site actually has some more techhie content elsewhere)-- about 86% of the last 500K+ hits were MSIE, 12% Netscape/Mozilla. Most of the rest were bots, or things like Scooter, Opera, etc. If (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
 
Bill, It's clear that you've made up your mind, as have I. Ok, no biggie, but I can see that our debate is starting to go in circles now. I'm not turning on javascript for the simple reason that I don't need it -- the vast majority of the sites I (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.publish)

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