I guess I kind of assumed that javascript was pretty ubiquitous.

The most recent data I've seen claims that 93% of users have javascript available, but I'm not clear on whether that's defined as "using a javascript-capable browser" or "have javascript turned on".

Personally, I use Firefox with the NoScript plugin, which prevents javascript from running unless I've specifically whitelisted the site that the javascript-containing document came from. So I do have javascript... but I won't be running yours unless you give me a reason to.

Also keep in mind that, in general, spiders and other bots don't process any javascript in the pages they encounter. Depending on your objectives, this may be either an advantage or a disadvantage to using javascript.

I do have access to "real" server access logs provided by my host. But where's the fun in that, when I can write scripts to do things?

What about writing scripts to parse and summarize the access logs, then generate pages (maybe even graphs) for you to easily view this information? That sounds a lot more interesting to me than one that just does "open a file, increment the number, write it back out".

In reply to Re^5: What's the deal with apostrophes? by dsheroh
in thread What's the deal with apostrophes? by tallCoolOne

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