> To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS.
> It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.
I think the client exists: it's a web browser using forms. Not as nice as what we all expected we would have by now back in the 90s, but it works. A blog entry's just a title and some text. Throw in an input field for the title, and a textarea for some Markdown and baby you've got a blog!
I feel like a lot of people are harshing on the fact that this is not like, I dunno, geocities or something, but I just want to express some appreciation that an effort is made for those of us who do not want to execute arbitrary code just to read a blog entry.
One note - on that page, it seems that while the content is there independent of Javascript, the navigation is loaded (from three different domains) with Javascript. I suspect there's a more graceful way to fallback there.
> If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999.
JS is older than that, and early uses of it were notorious for not having graceful fallbacks, so, no, I think that description is not at all unlike 1999.
It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.