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    <bug>
          <bug_id>9066</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2010-02-18 15:47:38 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>You state &quot;many users disable scripting&quot;... the most reliable stats I can find indicate that at most 1-2% of users have JS diabled. So using &quot;many&quot; is rather misleading.</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 13:57:38 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WONTFIX</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scripting-1</bug_file_loc>
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          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>LC</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
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    <commentid>32398</commentid>
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    <bug_when>2010-02-18 15:47:38 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scripting-1

Comment:
You state &quot;many users disable scripting&quot;... the most reliable stats I can find
indicate that at most 1-2% of users have JS diabled. So using &quot;many&quot; is rather
misleading.

Posted from: 66.186.116.126</thetext>
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    <commentid>32654</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2010-02-25 06:26:00 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>1% of 1.7 billion people is 17 million people, which I think is &quot;many&quot;.

ref: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: the text is accurate and describes best practice.</thetext>
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