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The notion of surfing the web without JavaScript enabled is increasingly antiquated. You can't even log into Google without JS enabled; it's necessary to mandat

• afandian 9y ago
  Not all web pages are (or at least need to be) web apps. Logging into an account vs reading a static page is apples to oranges. Mandating JS to get any content, no matter how static, seems like the start of the death of e.g. Linked Data and a the web as an open standards based platform. I know I'm in the minority but diversity is a strength, and there are few places more important than the web.
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  • fixermark 9y ago
    I don't see why JavaScript is antithetical to linked data. If it's because the web page can't be statically analyzed, that's a solvable problem---you dynamically execute the page in a JavaScript sandbox. Google had to solve a similar problem to successfully index Flash content. [https://searchengineland.com/google-now-crawling-and-indexing-flash-content-14299 https://searchengineland.com/google-now-crawling-and-indexin...]
• mirko22 9y ago
  To whom is it increasingly antiquated? Are you calling me old or what? I use uMatrix always, and allow pages i want to load JavaScript, and I try to get more and more people to do this actually when they say they have issues with bilion popups and adds. Using addblockers should be increasingly a positive trend not antiquated unless you want to part of botnet.
  • Zardoz84 9y ago
    pop-ups and ads? I use uBlock and I don't disable JavaScript. I don't have any issue any more.