alt Hacker NewsOh please. That ship has sailed. I'm marginally sympathetic to people who don't run JavaScript on their browsers for a variety of reasons, but they've deliberately opted out of the de facto modern web. JS is as fundamental to current design as CSS. If you turn it off, things might work, but almost no one is testing that setup, nor should they reasonably be expected to.
This has zero to do with Adtech for 99.99% of uses, either. Web devs like to write TypeScript and React because that's a very pleasant tech stack for writing web apps, and it's not worth the effort for them to support a deliberately hamstrung browser for < 0.1% of users (according to a recent Google report).
See also: feel free to disable PNG rendering, but I'm not going to lift a finger to convert everything to GIFs.
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There are many reasons to accommodate non-JS users beyond accommodating people who have intentionally disabled it, and most of them are in accessibility territory.
Be careful with using percentages for your arguments, because this is not that different from saying that 99.99% of people don't need wheelchair access.
the recent google report claimed that less than 0.1% of users have javascript disabled ... like for every website, or just some, or?
your PNG/GIF thing is nonsense (false equivalence, at least) and seems like deliberate attempt to insult
> I'm marginally sympathetic
you say that as if they've done some harm to you or anyone else. outside of these three words, you actually seem to see anyone doing this as completely invalid and that the correct course of action is to act like they don't exist.
> JS is as fundamental to current design as CSS.
I think this hits the crux of the trend fairly well.
And is why I have so many workarounds to shitty JS in my user files.
Because I can't see your CSS, either.