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Subject:	Re: Unviewable page, useless warning (Was: UCS TIE Crawler)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:18:38 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward writes: > However, the number of users who disable javascript today is probably > 0.01% or so... *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 (4) annoying advertising stops being 99.99% of the Javascript out there, then I'm keeping my javascript turned off unless I see enough merit to turn it on (and even then, it's going on strictly on a site-by-site basis). I *know* I'm not the only one doing this. Oh, and unless you have actual numbers to back up your claim of .01 percent, I'm going to stick to my 99.99% claim. :-, Cheers, - jsproat

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		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)

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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)

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