Sadly, that's true. I'm wondering how many feel that this is not a good direction where things are going -or if it's just me being "old". Why would someone wan

Sadly, that's true. I'm wondering how many feel that this is not a good direction where things are going -or if it's just me being "old". Why would someone want to use javascript on the client-side for things where it's not necessary? Year after year, the browser and the web are turning into "something else", and while the possibilities are exciting, it seems the use cases where javascript is used for things that actually make a positive difference, are vastly outnumbered by the cases where it is used to re-implement in a more flashy, complex and resource-intensive way things that have been usable, performant and functional, 10 years ago. IMO displaying content should be done just by HTML, using javascript if it's not to provide useful functionality, is wrong. Whether it is browser HTML/CSS incompatibilities, flash atrocities or complex script bloat, it seems the popular web always manages to fix one problem and create another.