{"id":2266,"date":"2011-05-10T20:54:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2266.html"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T10:44:17","slug":"the-spectrum-of-commonly-disabled-browser-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2011\/05\/10\/the-spectrum-of-commonly-disabled-browser-features\/","title":{"rendered":"The spectrum of commonly disabled browser features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Images
enabled?<\/th>\n		CSS
enabled?<\/th>\n		JS
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The full web. The happy path. The zen garden. 95% of people will see some form<\/em> of this. However, progressive enhancement, natural browser variations, and adaptive\/responsive design means that you can’t (and shouldn’t<\/em>) treat this 95% as a monolithic block of pixel-perfection. It’s a sub-spectrum of features.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Y<\/td>\nY<\/td>\nN<\/td>\n\n

JavaScript is disabled. Common reasons for this:<\/p>\n

Y<\/td>\nN<\/td>\nY<\/td>\n\n

CSS is disabled, but JavaScript is enabled. You’re a web developer.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Y<\/td>\nN<\/td>\nN<\/td>\n\n

CSS and JavaScript are both disabled, but you can still see images. You’re a web developer trying to figure out why your print stylesheet doesn’t work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

N<\/td>\nY<\/td>\nY<\/td>\n\n

Images are disabled. This is actually more common and more useful<\/em> than you might think, especially in low-bandwidth or expensive bandwidth situations. Most modern web pages still work just fine without images, they’re just a little less visually interesting. You should try it some time.<\/p>\n

Opera<\/a> is the only browser that has consistently made it easy to toggle image downloading from a menu or keyboard shortcut. Other browsers allow you to do this, but you have to dive into their options or preferences screen, or install an add-on.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

N<\/td>\nY<\/td>\nN<\/td>\n\n

Images and JavaScript are disabled, but CSS is still turned on. You’re trying to save ink while printing a web page.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

N<\/td>\nN<\/td>\nY<\/td>\n\n

Images and CSS are disabled, but JavaScript still works. You are a client-side unit testing framework.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

N<\/td>\nN<\/td>\nN<\/td>\n\n

Free-range organic HTML, rendered as nature intended it. You’re an awesome time-travelling hard-core Unix geek from the Dark Days before Mosaic (aka 1992), or, more disappointingly, a bot. Hello, bot. Nice bot. Have a cookie.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagesenabled? CSSenabled? JSenabled? Use case Y Y Y The full web. The happy path. The zen garden. 95% of people will see some form of this. However, progressive enhancement, natural browser variations, and adaptive\/responsive design means that you can’t (and shouldn’t) treat this 95% as a monolithic block of pixel-perfection. It’s a sub-spectrum of features. … <\/p>\n

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