What's the point of the javascript navigator.javaEnabled function?

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Published on 2010-05-24T13:36:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 13:41 UTC
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The navigator object has a javaEnabled function that indicates if the browser has javascript support. This seems to be a little odd:

If JS is indeed enabled the function will return true, well obviously.
If JS is disabled it will return <nothing> since it is never run, javaScript is disabled.

I must be missing something here, or is it really that useless this function?

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