[rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Fri Mar 8 13:39:58 CST 2002


[ On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 03:16:42 (-0500), James Sharp wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)
>
> At the moment, no I don't leave it enabled all the time.  But I get really
> freakin tired of having to go turning it on & turning it off & turning it
> back on when I go bounding between web sites.

If I were a UI designer....

> As much as I'd love to say "fuck javascript" and leave it off all the
> time, I'm not about to lose access to several key sites that make my life
> much easier (Online banking, mainly...and don't even ask them to make a
> non-JS page.

Idiots in the service business should know better than to customise
their services right out of usability.

If I were you I'd look for more intelligent people to pay my good money
to.  If I'm buying a service then I want one that suits my needs!

Note that if you don't like HTTP cookies, then J$ is only about an order
of magnitude worse.....  :-)

> JS doesn't seem to piss off my browsers.  Java applets are an entirely
> different story, though.

The only Java applet I've even wanted to try to run recently was the
Insight thing to look at the maps at www.davidrumsey.com, but I couldn't
even be bothered (I don't have a java interpreter installed by default
with Mozilla).  I now realise it would have been even more of a pain
given that they only supply .exe and .bin packed versions of their crap.

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