Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/23/06 07:27

Kevin Scholl wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
>> substitute for most of the rest. Conversely, many people turn off
>> Javascript for good reasons, and that doesn't keep most sites from
>> displaying.
>
> Just to satisfy my devil's advocacy, could you provide examples of these
> so-called "good reasons"? I have yet to see a truly viable "good reason"
> for turning off Javascript. Most reasons to date involve 1) confusion
> with Java, 2) some supposed security risk (often ActiveX controls
> mistaken for JS),

You're confusing "real" with "supposed". As for ActiveX objects, one of
the things Javascript is used for is to script those objects.

3) "somebody told me..." nonsense, or 4) stopping
> popups. The only one of these with any real merit was 4, but even that
> is antiquated given the specialized popup blockers in modern browsers.

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