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by Cthulhu_ 1888 days ago
An anecdotal "a lot of" is not an authoritative source. >99% of browsers in active use support JS (https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share) and <1% of people have JS disabled (https://deliberatedigital.com/blockmetry/javascript-disabled).

You say "a lot of", but the statistics say "a statistically insignificant percentage". I'm all for designing your static webpages with no need for JS, but the claim that a lot of people have it turned off is demonstrably false.

Anyway, hovering on an image to get a description shouldn't need javascript, that's an alt tag that is definitely supported by anything but hobby project browsers.
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memorysafety 1888 days ago
> the claim that a lot of people have it turned off is demonstrably false

Not unless you've taken a concrete definition for "a lot of people".

Even 1% of internet users is still a lot of people IMO. Like, on the order of tens of millions, right?.. That's bigger than whole countries.

Also keep in mind how outraging it feels to find yourself in that 1% that someone decided it was fine to ignore and discriminate against the mainstream. We all been there.

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intc 1888 days ago
The group of people (and their choice of browser and it's possible security related constraints) accessing github probably does not correlate 1:1 with "all of the world"?
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