> OK, as apparently .js is the defacto thing to build cool sites, I for one will be left out here. I doubt they're building it in JS for giggles. In order to

> OK, as apparently .js is the defacto thing to build cool sites, I for one will be left out here. I doubt they're building it in JS for giggles. In order to make changes like this stick my guess would be that you need to reach a tipping point before interest fades, and to do that you need to take away the browser vendors ability to say 'no' or 'maybe later'. As you point out, people who don't run JS by default represent a tiny percentage of traffic, so would have to be a secondary concern to be supported later.