"I Used The Web For A Day With Javascript Turned Off." I Used the Web For A Decade With Javascript Turned Off. I have been using the Web for over a decade via

"I Used The Web For A Day With Javascript Turned Off." I Used the Web For A Decade With Javascript Turned Off. I have been using the Web for over a decade via software that has no Javascript capabilities. There is a conception one can detect in this article that there is only one "working" look for any website: the look that the designer intended. However IME many websites "work" without ever engaging the "look" the designer intended. To discuss this, one needs to first specifically define what it means for a website to "work". I am not sure agreement can be reached on that issue. It may be that the definition of "work" varies with each user. Different users may want different experiences. I know what I want from websites: data. I am less concerned with design. This may not be the case for another user. The author cites Amazon as an example website. When I am only browsing Amazon I do not use a "modern" web browser nor Javascript. Without a browser nor Javascript I can download product data in bulk, convert it to CSV and import it into kdb+ for easier searching and viewing. Without a browser nor Javascript I can download images of interesting products and embed them into a simple PDF for offline viewing, using pdflib. When I am ready to purchase, then I might move to a "modern" browser with Javascript-enabled. Other example websites he gives are Wordpress, Github, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. I read the content of all these sites without ever using a "modern" browser nor Javascript. If I want to view images or video, I can download them as in the above case of Amazon. I may choose to view the data in whatever application I choose on whatever computer I choose on the local network, and the computer need not be connected to the internet. For this user, these websites "work" just fine without Javascript. I can always use a "modern" browser with Javascript if I want to see what the designer intended. However this is rarely necessary for the experience I seek.