I think sacrificing functionality for 99% of users to accommodate 1% is sheer bloody mindedness. We can design our sites using a technique called Progressive E

I think sacrificing functionality for 99% of users to accommodate 1% is sheer bloody mindedness. We can design our sites using a technique called Progressive Enhancement. Sounds to me like he just said you shouldn't do that, and then tells you to do it. You don't create a website, and then provide an enhanced version for those with javascript enabled. Not unless you are building a website in 1995. You provide a normal version and a degraded version for those with missing parts. The problem is Javascript is part of the browser, when you disable part of the browser. Stuff won't work... It's not up to the web developer to accommodate that. If someone has a virus on their computer, you don't build your website expecting ads to be placed on it. If someone has an extension that changes every word on the page that starts with v to cheese. You shouldn't rewrite your website to not use v words.