[straight_talk]

>> I simply don't understand why you would want to browse the web without JS enabled

Security, performance, JS ads ...

>> Every single common-use browser on the Internet supports Javascript

My company provides a web based app to Fortune 500 banks, around 15% of the browsers we see have JS disabled.

[kondro]

15% of browsers? I don't believe it. This has definitely not been my experience. You must be counting scrapers/bots in this total.

Security? The browser sandboxes everything.

[andor]

Some people have valuable data inside their browsers. Javascript code can access this data.

Also, browsers aren't bug-free, and enabling Javascript significantly increases the attack surface.

[tokenizerrr]

Like what kind of data?

[straight_talk]

Seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

[tokenizerrr]

Except that Javascript cannot access that, unless some glaring design flaws have been made.

If you disagree with me, and believe it can, I would just love to see a webpage that dumps out valuable data inside my browser. I'll visit it without any browser plugins using the same session I have been using for over a month, promise!

[straight_talk]

A human would never make "glaring design flaws".

[dbaupp]

> around 15% of the browsers we see have JS disabled

How many are bots/scrapers?

[simonbrown]

How are you detecting whether they have JS disabled?