Tom Cole wrote:
Does anyone know of web client stats showing the percentage of users
that JavaScript enabled/disabled?
You do not think of so-called "statistics" (because most of them are no
statistics at all, missing the most important aspects of such a work) as
a reliable resource for your decision-making process, do you?
A Web document that requires JavaScript to provide basic functionality is
simply b0rken because there are people who cannot use it. It should not
matter to you if those are 90%, 50% or 0.01% of the visitors because you
could be the one that helps to decrease the number of visitors for the
site of an author or your own site. Visitors are potential customers on
commercial sites.
Besides, having JavaScript enabled does not mean automagically that
accessing JavaScript from Java works. Security settings may, and because
of Murphy's Law, will prevent that and the user may/will not be able to do
anything about it (because security policies imposing access restrictions
will prevent it).
And last but not least you cannot presume that even client-side Java is
supported.
PointedEars