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I don't know what websites you are limited to visiting, but pretty much none of the ones I use on any regular basis would be functional without Javascript. Sorr

I don't know what websites you are limited to visiting, but pretty much none of the ones I use on any regular basis would be functional without Javascript. Sorry, not a viable solution except for extremists.

pmoriarty 7y ago
You're using just such a site right now: HN runs fine without javascript -- except for voting, which I rarely do anyway. Reddit runs fine without it (again with the exception of voting). Most news sites run fine or even better without javascript, as without it you're not subject to all the bloat that advertising heavy sites burden you with. Recently there was some post on HN that linked to a Forbes article, and there were a bunch of complaints in the HN thread about how nightmarish the Forbes website was, with all the ads it foisted on the user. But in emacs-w3m, which does not understand javascript, the site was perfectly readable. There are plenty of other sites which implement anti-ad-blocking code via javascript which are completely bypassed by simply using a browser that doesn't run javascript. Overall, I find that maybe 90% of the sites I visit run fine or well enough without javascript. Sometimes a website will have a legitimate need for the interaction or live updates that javascript facilitates (thout maybe some or all of that could be done via HTML 5.. I haven't done web development in decades, so I don't know, but I suspect it could), like finance sites which run stock tickers, or some art or games sites. I mostly don't use any of those, though, so very rarely run across a site I need that actually legitimately needs something like javascript. Much more frequently I run in to sites that don't need javascript (because they're just delivering static content), but which choose to use javascript anyway -- either because it's more convenient for them, because a lot of web frameworks make use of it, and/or because they want to deliver ads and track their users through javascript. When I run across such sites, I either try to circumvent them somehow (maybe by manually reading the source and extracting the content), or when that fails I just avoid them. In the very rare cases when I can't avoid them, can't circumvent them, and absolutely need them, I'll grudgingly enable javascript. This case accounts for maybe 5% or less of my web use.
- doc_gunthrop 7y ago
  > HN runs fine without javascript -- except for voting, which I rarely do anyway. You can still sign in and vote with JS disabled on HN.

pmoriarty 7y ago

You're using just such a site right now: HN runs fine without javascript -- except for voting, which I rarely do anyway. Reddit runs fine without it (again with the exception of voting). Most news sites run fine or even better without javascript, as without it you're not subject to all the bloat that advertising heavy sites burden you with. Recently there was some post on HN that linked to a Forbes article, and there were a bunch of complaints in the HN thread about how nightmarish the Forbes website was, with all the ads it foisted on the user. But in emacs-w3m, which does not understand javascript, the site was perfectly readable. There are plenty of other sites which implement anti-ad-blocking code via javascript which are completely bypassed by simply using a browser that doesn't run javascript. Overall, I find that maybe 90% of the sites I visit run fine or well enough without javascript. Sometimes a website will have a legitimate need for the interaction or live updates that javascript facilitates (thout maybe some or all of that could be done via HTML 5.. I haven't done web development in decades, so I don't know, but I suspect it could), like finance sites which run stock tickers, or some art or games sites. I mostly don't use any of those, though, so very rarely run across a site I need that actually legitimately needs something like javascript. Much more frequently I run in to sites that don't need javascript (because they're just delivering static content), but which choose to use javascript anyway -- either because it's more convenient for them, because a lot of web frameworks make use of it, and/or because they want to deliver ads and track their users through javascript. When I run across such sites, I either try to circumvent them somehow (maybe by manually reading the source and extracting the content), or when that fails I just avoid them. In the very rare cases when I can't avoid them, can't circumvent them, and absolutely need them, I'll grudgingly enable javascript. This case accounts for maybe 5% or less of my web use.

doc_gunthrop 7y ago
> HN runs fine without javascript -- except for voting, which I rarely do anyway. You can still sign in and vote with JS disabled on HN.