Jan 13 2009
3,460,000 People Missing an Opportunity
As a NoScript user (for the sake of speed and security), I’m sick of seeing the words ‘Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting
‘ so out of interest I did a little Googling. Surprise surprise:
Results 1 – 10 of about 3,460,000 for “Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting”
That’s 3,460,000 results for lazy gits who can’t be arsed to add a summary of their Flash/JavaScipt content. Just think of the possible improvements to usability, accessibility — and even SEO — that could be had by replacing that one little line with something more relevant to the content of each specific website…
Warning
This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.
As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.
Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.
8 Responses so far
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‘tards who post anonymous comments won’t have their shit posted, irrelevant of how they spin it.
Nice try though.
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No comments? D:
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Wait, so what are they trying to tell the visitor? To enable JavaScript? I’m a bit confused.
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*looks around shiftily* Well to be fair, all of my work related projects are javascript powered, but… for the sake of speed, we thought that implementing a "please enable javascript" even would be too much.
As for the anonymous comment, just think of it: that guy must have a serious obsession. Despite the fact that he hates you, he still visits your site a lot. ;)
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I try to avoid JavaScript and Flash and as far as I’m aware I don’t have it on my site (I just tried with my JavaScript disabled and it looks the same).
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hmm I wasn’t done yet…
It is just a matter of putting a little more effort in your site by catering for all (or most) people that will come to your site. But I guess there will always be people that just don’t care about that and go for the easy route..
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Not that I necessarily understand it, but I pulled a you and Googled it. Guess some people listened to you. [= "Results 1 – 10 of about 2,160,000 for Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting." Down to 2.16 million!
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I’m seeing more! Don’t forget to use quotation marks :)
Results 1 – 10 of about 5,160,000 for "Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting".
