[IanKelling]

And without running proprietary javascript, their page displays no text. So, ya.

[leereeves]

Proprietary means privately owned.

Who owns Javascript? ECMA is a public standard.

[_xhok]

I think he means the unobfuscated code is proprietary.

[leereeves]

Could be. It's not obfuscated

> // Polyfill for creating CustomEvents on IE9/10/11

> function EmailInput(e,t,i,n){function r()

but it does contain some proprietary code from GreenSock.

[column]

But is js really needed on such a page? Wouldn't css-grid do the job just fine?

[coldtea]

Because 1/100000 of their customers might have JS turned of?

[Retric]

The global average it's 0.2% or 1:500, however Taiwan averages 2.3% though Android tablets hit 9.6%. And, some websites see significantly higher rates.

https://blockmetry.com/blog/javascript-disabled

LTDR; Supporting non JS users tends to be very cheap, so it's often well worth the investment.

[wooter]

id imagine the company has web apps (internal and external). why support multiple stacks for what is not even remotely close to their core competency? isomorphism, for example, is a big advantage for both maintainability, community support, and rapid delivery