Posted by Ben Gun on 02/14/07 17:02

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:47:29 GMT, "Richard Formby"
<newsgroups@barefile.com.au> wrote:

>"Ben Gun" wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:34:58 -0600, Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Ben Gun wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 76% use MS Internet Explorer. I know for a fact that this
>>>> particular browser as a safeguard asks if it is ok to run javascript.
>>>
>>>Only if you set the security preferences to do so.
>> I can't set security preferences on THEIR browsers.
>
>Ben, are you sure of your demographics?
>
>True, IE can be configured to *ask* if it is OK to run javascript (or
>Jscript). However out of the box this is set off.
>
>Consider one of the most pouplar web pages on the internet:
>http://google.com
>
>This page uses Javascript. Do you really think all of those 76% of your
>users that view the google page with IE answer the question every time? I
>don't :-) They either have the setting off of have it set to ignore
>javascript (the 10%?) in which case your page should gracefully degrade.
>
Hi Richard,
you are right, I was quickly testing the code at work, loading the
file into IE WITHOUT webserver. Turns out IE treats files differently
then:

http://dhtmldev.com/content/view/96/30/

Nice solution though (Adding a Comment URL
). Learn something every day.

Thanks, Ben

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