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Re:NYT Skimmer by mrandre on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:07PM (#2810568)
It's a very very small boat with only nerds in it.
Re:NYT Skimmer by simcop2387 on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:29AM (#2810769)
I have been trying out Skimmer and do thing it is certainly a very interesting way to lay things out and get at the news. I have not decided my full opinion on it yet.

However, this unprofessional response from you does make me wary of it. A personal attack like this I feel was entirely uncalled for.

Second, I think this boat may be larger than you believe it to be. According to Mozilla[1], there's nearly 2 million potential browsers out there with some form of JavaScript filtering on by default. This is calculated from the number of browsers checking for updates, not from the download statistics (88 million at current writing). While other browsers[2][3] do not boast this large of a user base they are continuing to grow (3000 a week for chrome).

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=noscript&... [2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahl... [3]: https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/notscript...

Re:NYT Skimmer by omaranto on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:12AM (#2810864)
That's uncalled for. And really is it that hard to give the small number of users that disable JavaScript some indication that your website would work if they enabled it?