[ramshorns]

> Why on earth would you not want to distribute the overall application load.

Maybe because I want my phone battery to last a long time, but I don't care how much electricity the web server uses. Maybe also because the JavaScript is probably proprietary software [0], which I don't want to run on my computer.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

[ballenf]

FWIW, the HTML + CSS approach of the author is just as copyrightable and potentially non-free as the JS in question. There's really no difference. Sure his 'code' is practically pointless, but that's no obstacle to being non-free.

Uglified/minified HTML+CSS is almost as difficult to parse by humans as JS.

I'm all for free software and very supportive of the arguments, but the pro-HTML, anti-JS rhetoric never made a lot of sense to me, consistency-wise, at least in these days of CSS3.

[na85]

Blocking js was one of the best decisions I have made. The web is so much more usable and pleasant without it.