Scriptless Day on 7th of July
I just came across “Scriptless Day”:http://www.scriptlessday.com/ via Twitter, which is something like CSS naked day but for JavaScripts. I had the same idea but didn’t bother as after me criticizing naked day I’d have appeared as a copycat.
In essence scriptless day is a great idea as it should show that:
- web sites with properly developed scripts do work without scripts
- JavaScript does make our experience smoother when it is available.
I am not too sure about the explanation of what a script is, and rather scared about the notion that it is nothing you have to think about if you believe in a library doing it for you, but all in all I am looking forward to this.
[tags]scriptlessday,scripting,usability,accessibility[/tags]
April 9th, 2007 at 10:32 am
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April 9th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Thanks for spreading the word! We’ve added you to our supporters section. Nice description btw:
“In essence scriptless day is a great idea as it should show that:
April 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I find it amusing that they offer a bit of Javascript on the site to help promote it when the div and map inside the script would have been sufficient. Won’t that mean that on scriptless day all the badges will disappear?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Christian, are you aware that their site is completely non-functional without Javascript (at least for me)? Not so much amusing as contrary to the entire point…
April 9th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
@all: It is not my site and their decisions. I do subscribe to the idea of scriptless day, and don’t judge it by its web site. Personally I consider smooth scrolling to page anchors atrocious, it confuses the heck out of me. :-)
April 9th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Pretty amusing if the site becomes non-functional on scriptless day. I still support the idea regardless as I am interested to see how the concept of progressive enhancement has been uptaken. Hopefully if this takes off it will contribute to greater awareness. Heck maybe today can be scriptless day if I just disable javascript right now?
April 10th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Great, now I’ve got to go and implement a ton of JavaScript on my site just so that I can turn it off on Scriptless day!
April 11th, 2007 at 8:48 am
All…
Promoting Scriptless Day is completely up to you… you are not forced to do it. The only reason why we included the badge was because it was coded in JS and we knew people would think it to be contradictory… and therefore spark conversation (ooh-ahh).
The site is coded predominately in JS so that on Scriptless Day it will not function properly x).
April 12th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I should have made this available sooner. For all you folks that don’t want to use the JavaScript Badge, (and there are quite alot of you)… please visit the site for the “Alternative” 125×125px Image.
ciao
April 15th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Oh dear… say something silly about css naked day, then promote scriptless day. One day I’ll understand your ambitions…
April 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Care to elaborate what was “silly” about my comments on CSS naked day? Instead of attacking here I’d use information like that to alter the product. It would for example not hurt to add some links to information about semantic HTML and good document structure.
This comment is exactly why I didn’t create something like scriptless day.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Chris I agree with you. I linked to Dustin’s site but I was most annoyed that it explained nothing about why CSS day was important. I’m still going to do it but I’m planning to write a nice explaination page for different audience groups.
April 18th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hi, new reader here.
I got a hoot out of your rounded corners and sick animals bullets a few posts back. :-)
IRT your “web sites with properly developed scripts do work without scripts”, I’ve been to a few StartPages in the past that need to practice what you are preaching.
Personally, I don’t use any JS, but I have gobs of saves on every …box & Toolkit out there and since I’m taking a JS class this term, I’ve been reading up on it a lot lately.
If I can be convinced that a site looks and functions almost 100% the same with or without JS, I may incorporate some myself down the road. As is, I hate forcing people to activate their NoScript just as much as I hate doing it myself when I’m already at a trusted new site.
But, what do I know, I’m still in school. Peace.