Hey all, I was wondering whether anyone has any information on the useage of JavaScript by Internet users. I am not really happy about the way my menu looked in CSS (with menu's which appear on a mouse-over), so I'm thinking about changing to a JavaScript menu. However, I'm not really sure how many users wouldn't be able to use my site anymore, because they don't have JavaScript enabled. Does anyone have any info on this? And what do you do when users don't have JavaScript enabled? Do you give them another menu, or do you not care about them? Thanks a lot,
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=211706 If you intend to use AdSense then your visitors need to have js enabled or they won't see the ads. If you don't care about revenue then you can cater to the nonjs users. Otherwise I don't worry about them. It's 2007 now. People need to stop freaking out over JS. From what people tell me, the number of people who don't have JS enabled is a small percentage. So you could probably just ignore them. If they really want to use your site then they should turn on JS.
JavaScript menus are fine, we have issued lots of them and never had any complaints about people not being able to navigate their websites. You can also include a noscript menu like what we do at http://www.milonic.com - take a look at the source and you'll see a HTML based menu inside a noscript tag. This allows users who have JS turned off to still navigate our site. It also helps search engines see the links and therefore helps crawl your website. We have noticed that the number of people who switch JS off are very few and far between. Most apps, like webmail etc etc need javascript to run so switching it off is not a very good idea. HTH