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by inclemnet 4133 days ago
> The modern web is scriptable and the days of "no javascript" are over.

But why should we accept this? Why does it justify pages like this one, that don't need javascript but deliberately fail if you don't enable it?

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Because the marketing guys want it and to write for fallbacks takes time. While this instance is not about marketing, my point is that turning javascript off makes you one of the few and I would have to determine if that 2% is worth the effort.

Some companies won't target your browser if you have less than 5% market share. Even 10% market share. So imagine when I find out you are less than 2% market share (no js users).

For my web dev company, we have about 10 clients. None of the visitors have ever had javascript turned off that I'm aware of over the last several years.