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by amiraliakbari 3083 days ago
For me, making a better HTML/CSS and forcing it on everyone contradicts with the openness and accessibility of the web. It's 2018 and still there is no reasonable support of not-so-popular languages and locales in any browser or OS.

Consider a simple blog whose users are used to Jalali calendar. Blocking JS will only make the web more hard to use for them. It took many years for simple date utilities to land in HTML5 standard, and I bet things like decent global localization support will not be part of any standard in the next ten years.

User hostile activities should be prevented, but it should be done by developing more PrivacyBadger like tools, not limiting everyone to a small subset of available technology.