Re: JavaScript usage (was: Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers)

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Octavio and All,

2014-08-31 19:21 GMT+02:00 Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>:
> On 08/31/2014 10:03 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 2014-08-31 17:42 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>:
>>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Stefan Kullack wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three simple questions!
>>>>
>>>> Here is the link to the survey: https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/MFKXYLP
>>>
>>> You might get more feedback if you weren't using a proprietary SaaSS
>>> (service as a software substitute) that also causes privacy violations
>>> by asking users' browsers to report to the proprietary privacy
>>> invading Google Analytics service.
>> I would happily take this survey if I could do it without enabling
>> JavaScript on the page.
>> It this was the first survey question it is a pretty clever setup :-)
>
> Why don't you use JavaScript? I also don't like enabling JavaScript in
> my browsers but other than my personal reasons I have no arguments
> coming from somebody else.
>
> How do you currently cope up with pages with JavaScript? I use Chrome
> and the "Quick JavaScript Switcher" plugin.
>
> Do you have a particular concept regarding JavaScript or scripting in
> documents, or is it just for a practical purpose?
I use NoScript and enable the minimal set of JavaScripts for every
page they need to run. Most probably this is overkill and I take this
request back. I just felt that for a few checkboxes and radio buttons
it is overkill to run JavaScript.

Cheers,
Balint