[lazyjones]

> Javascript has become a fundamental part of the web, and for the same reason I won't put in extra work to make my sites work in IE, I also will not put in extra work to make my sites work for (a vanishingly small number of) people who pre-emptively block one of the most powerful tools in my belt.

Perhaps you should just try without JS one day and you might be relieved off a large burden that comes with JS (a lot of security issues, complexity, organizing files and loading, crawling and indexing support). I think the threshold for switching to JS use should be higher than it is currently for all the people who just use it by default.

[hilbert42]

You are wasting your time preaching to those who've an agenda, presumably the author gets paid for writing JS so even if he/she actually recognizes the advantages then he/she isn't likely to follow up.

It's occurred to me from reading these posts that we need a few good coders to develop some logically equivalent test sites one using JS and the other without then advertise the fact on HN so as everyone can see and compare.