www.it-ebooks.info User Preferences
Images on
Firefox (same for Win and Mac)
IE6-Win (alt text on)
IE6-Win (alt text off)
Safari (Mac OS X)
Netscape 7 (Win)
Figure 3-4.  It is possible for users to turn image loading off in their browsers. Although providing alternative text helps, it is not 100% foolproof. Notice that the link labels are lost in IE 6 for Windows (when the Alt text option is turned off) and Safari on the Mac. This is another reason to be careful with the way you use images on your pages.
Navigation disappears
Java ON
Java OFF Content disappears
Figure 3-5.  The site on the top loses all of its navigation when Java is turned off. In the site at the bottom of the figure, the main content disappears when JavaScript is not on. Both sites serve as a lesson not to require special functionality for essential content.
JavaScript ON JavaScript OFF
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