[onychomys]

> For 99.999% of web browsing use-cases, HTML/CSS is all that's needed.

Many people use the web to buy things. Button presses, logins, pizza tracking monitors, they all use JS.

[witheld]

None of those require JS at all, except the pizza monitor.

[onychomys]

How can you send information to your backend server without JS?

[jansommer]

Back in the days (I'm 33 and thus quite old in web years) we would use forms

[stevage]

Submit buttons or links. Then the whole page reloads.

There might be tricks using CSS and images too.

[jzebedee]

This is like a technical invocation of Poe's law.