I see you are a stalwart defender of JavaScript :) > Web after widespread JavaScript was strictly more usable for non-technical people. I suppose that's tru

I see you are a stalwart defender of JavaScript :) > Web after widespread JavaScript was strictly more usable for non-technical people. I suppose that's true. The "web" now has more reach, and generally user interfaces have improved, and JavaScript has had many positive effects on that improvement. But none of these things are necessarily causative, and may be more or less coincidences along the timeline. JavaScript solves some issues to do with presentation, and allowing web browsers to compute things instead of needing a server to. It also allows dangerous security holes, browser malware, spying on the user and a host of "bad things". So whether the overall experience is an "improvement" cannot be easily argued. There are some "Web Applications" like browser based videoconferencing that would be impossible without JavaScript. Whether these belong "in the browser" is debatable. However the misuse of JavaScript to lazily construct or decorate web content is a growing problem that is denounced by all sorts of people, including web developers and ordinary users who find their pages take ages to load, or function sporadically, or leak information. Have you used Gemini? Give it a try. Many non-technical people find it very "usable" and it is a technology on-par with Web 1.0 in many ways. > Generally I see the anti-Web2.0 digital vegan perspectives to be about opposing JavaScript. :) The DV arguments are much bigger and broader than JavaScript. But to put it in that context for you; most people like myself argue that JavaScript and other "web technologies" have transformed it into something that isn't the web any longer. It doesn't function as an information publishing and distribution system. It's still called "The Web" by dint of evolutionary lineage, but in reality has transformed into something unrecognisable (a surveillance engine and content pushing system). The simple, safe and widely understood function (that some here are calling Web 1.0) is now forced to live alongside something else with no clear boundaries or distinctions between them, and no sense of what parts of that technology are operating when you visit a site. This is very bad for everyone regardless of the usability gains obtained. I hope that makes sense.