Is Javascript bad? Is W3 validation important, or just cross-browser compatibility is? (was: Supermarket repackaging trick again)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org wrote:

> On 7/18/06, Byron Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>  Anything with the word 'java' in it is bad ;)
>
> I like javascript... at least it helped me to create the webpage I
> wanted pretty easily... works in multiple browsers... good enough for
> me! :-)

     It doesn't do any good if the viewer has Javascript turned off.

     90% of the Javascript I see on the web is totally unnecessary.

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