I'm being a facetious ass. But you know I'm not wrong, either.
That trend might reverse if vulnerabilities like these continue to surface.
I’m not saying that shouldn’t be done, but business wise its probably usually best to instead add design changes for the latest smartphone screen.
The web isn’t a hypertext graph anymore, it’s a large JavaScript program with a thin html front now.
A lot of sites rely on JS to function even at a basic level these days and I think the parent was saying it's unlikely that that's going to change.
As the other comments point out, though, the biggest problem is that this is economically irrational for most site owners. The figures on JS-disabled usage I had when I was still at Google (3+ years ago now) were at the lower end of TikiTDO's range. It generally doesn't make economic sense to spend developer time on an experience used by 0.1% of users, particularly if this requires compromises for the 99.9% of users who do have JS enabled.
If you have a web app there’s no point, but if you’re displaying text and images and your site doesn’t work without JS, you’ve over-egged a solved problem.
(... While increasing perceived latency, especially for mobile users.)
(it's the more advanced version of uBlock, from the same dev)
Does this mean that all websites work? Of course not. But this allows the user to choose which sites to allow to run js. I'm not going to pretend that this is an easy task for non-technical users, but we should be promoting these kinds of habits, not scoffing at them. We should educate as many users as possible that they can still (for now) control much of the web-based code executing on their machines.
Then there was that time when I read on HN about Forbes loading 35 MB worth of crap (lots of JS too) when you first access it, sure enough it's completely broken with noscript too if you don't allow it.
Long live progressive enhancement and graceful degradation.
At least until we get a JS interpreter with proper permission controls and sandbox limits. Something closer to how Lua is embedded sounds nice.
