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…

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8 Responses so far

  1. Jem says: January 13, 2009 at 10:09 pm # ·

    ‘tards who post anonymous comments won’t have their shit posted, irrelevant of how they spin it.

    Nice try though.

  2. Anita says: January 14, 2009 at 12:00 am # ·

    No comments? D:

  3. Vasili says: January 14, 2009 at 2:29 am # ·

    Wait, so what are they trying to tell the visitor? To enable JavaScript? I’m a bit confused.

  4. Vera says: January 14, 2009 at 4:41 am # ·

    *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. ;)

  5. Chans says: January 14, 2009 at 10:21 am # ·

    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).

  6. Chans says: January 14, 2009 at 10:23 am # ·

    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..

  7. Corinne says: January 22, 2009 at 10:49 pm # ·

    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!

  8. Jem says: January 22, 2009 at 10:52 pm # ·

    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".