The fine can be up to 10% of the annual revenue, or $2.5 billion
Ambiguous phrase: does that mean 10% of their revenue is $2.5 billion (ie annual revenue $25 billion), or that their revenue is $2.5 billion, so they can be fined $250 million?
Javascript is useful, no doubt there. Takes all sorts of loads off servers. The main annoying part of it (which is the real issue here, and the reason exit traps are such an annoyance) is that you can't just disable javascript's ability to open new windows whilst leaving the rest of its abilities intact. grrrr.
That's it. End of story. If browsers let you do that, we'd all be happy.
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They don't seem to have a problem selling you bottles of vodka from the duty free cart...
You could make a pretty nice fireball with a couple of those.
According to the article, it's a metre wide and paper-thin. Hardly a major contributing factor to global meltdown...
The fine can be up to 10% of the annual revenue, or $2.5 billion
Ambiguous phrase: does that mean 10% of their revenue is $2.5 billion (ie annual revenue $25 billion), or that their revenue is $2.5 billion, so they can be fined $250 million?
Javascript is useful, no doubt there. Takes all sorts of loads off servers. The main annoying part of it (which is the real issue here, and the reason exit traps are such an annoyance) is that you can't just disable javascript's ability to open new windows whilst leaving the rest of its abilities intact. grrrr.
That's it. End of story. If browsers let you do that, we'd all be happy.