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by Volpe 4849 days ago
I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...

But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?

2 comments

For a sufficiently lax definition of "browser", no.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers#Java...

> why not CSS

Disabling useless CSS stuff is pretty much what Readability is all about.

Besides, CSS generally doesn't claim much of my CPU to display peripheral stuff. Javascript, on the other hand ...