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I’m planning to switch to a new style which relies heavily on CSS3 and JavaScript. This means for instance that certain parts might absolutely require JavaScript and not work correctly with JavaScript disabled (for instance, tabs might load their content using AJAX without a fallback.) However, before I spend time working on this new style I’d like to get some opinions from you, my dear readers …
- Do you mind requiring JavaScript?
- Do you prefer JavaScript linked off a CDN or hosted locally? (For instance, I could pull JQuery from Microsoft’s CDN)
- Do you plan to keep your browser up-to-date to follow new web-standards or do you update rather casually?
Please comment or drop me a line using the contact form, so I can flesh out a nice and useful redesign plan.
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hey anteru!
* Do you mind requiring JavaScript?: Nope
* Do you prefer JavaScript linked off a CDN or hosted locally? (For instance, I could pull JQuery from Microsoft’s CDN): Erm, dunno… Never heard of CDN before so I can’t say anything about it. But I never had performance problems with your blog, so I don’t see any sense in a speed-up.
* Do you plan to keep your browser up-to-date to follow new web-standards or do you update rather casually?: Yep, I keep my browser up-to-date.
I do keep my browser up to date – but somehow I prefer pages which can be viewed w/o JavaScript. However the “cool features” are always made via jQuery and its brothers …
CDN or not? That’s a good question. As you might know, I use NoScript and I have to unblock all sources of JavaScripts. Normally I unblock the most frequently visited pages.
Let’s sum it up:
CDN: Less traffic for me, cause the script might already be in Cache. Less trouble having the latest version.
!CDN: Less unblocking.
JavaScript & CDN: I’d also prefer !CDN since anteru.net is allowed anyways in no-script and I dont want to allow just any js hosted on some CDN
Browser: Usually I have a recent Firefox installed
Anteru
- You should look up “unobtrusive javascript”, which describes methods of using javascript where with no javascript you still have a functional site. Adding javascript makes extra bling available.
-don’t know or care what CDN is…
-I usually keep my browser up to date, but sometimes am lazy about javascript. In general, I think most people have javascript and use auto-updaters, especially in the world of programmers that might read your blog…