From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 09:54:50 MDT
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Also, you can't close the advertisement window, because it uses JavaScript
> to open another ad as soon as you close that one.
This is one of the major reasons why I tend to browse the web
with Javacript either completely disabled or filtered by an agent.
The problem is that some sites use it in essential features
in spite of the fact that it is *not* standard HTML in any way.
One has to whack the web site designers & developers in the
side of the head and say -- "Hey, do you know that Javascript
not only crashes browsers because it is not a "standard" language,
slows page download times (due to the increased size of pages that
involve Javascript), allows annoying pop-up windows that will not
go away, and increases consumption of CPU time that I would rather
dedicate to more productive distributed computing purposes?"
Such designers/engineers need a significant dose of "Duh!"
combined with "Just say No!".
I have written a document to attempt to discourage the use
of Javascript...
Its *My* Computer
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Papers/IMC.html
Robert
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