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by noir_lord 3256 days ago
I looked, figures I can find for the UK show that 98.7% of people have javascript enabled.

If I ran a restaurant and 98.7% of my revenue came from the drive through I'd seriously consider shutting the foot traffic part down.
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komali2 3256 days ago
Yea but having a hybrid doesn't just take care of that 1.3%, it tremendously helps those that are blind [1], the huge smear with different versions of JS, those that come in on mobile with JS enabled and then flick it off because your site broke for their random configuration of screen size and mobile browser, etc.

Finally, that's the UK. Students in India trying to learn about space may not have the internet speeds we're used to, and might browse with JS disabled because that's the literally the only way they can afford to without blowing data caps.

Anyway, you'll never catch me doing it unless I'm testing my own site, but it's definitely forward-thinking and kinda polite to have SOME sort of fallback for people without JS enabled.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/57340/percentage-of-s...

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noir_lord 3256 days ago
Accessibility is way more important (to me) than noJS.

Given infinite resources I'd do all three but the with JS experience and accessibility matters more (to me).

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pferde 3255 days ago
Nobody is asking any miraculous things. Merely a dump of article contents without any formatting effort on webdesigner's part would do. Us "nojs vegans" aren't picky. Don't even need pictures, just the meat (I'm sure a pun of some sort could be made here) of the page.

I don't think that's unreasonable, given that the meat here is just plain text, something that web has been capable of delivering years before your javascript crutch became widely available.

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noir_lord 3255 days ago
> your javascript crutch became widely available.

Bit harsh, my personal blog has zero javascript.

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pferde 3255 days ago
Sorry, it wasn't meant to be a personal "your" aimed at you specifically, but rather than a general one.
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noir_lord 3254 days ago
No worries. For what it's worth I think 2Mb of JS to load text and picture is bonkers as well.
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