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I agree with you. I have js disabled by default and every time I run up against a site that uses client-side templating I find it incredibly annoying - I understand the rationale behind it but it's still annoying how many things tend to break without javascript.

However, you can't design a browser around an expectation of what the web should be like.

And anyway, it could be worse. If there were no javascript we would all be complaining about the dominance of VBScript in the browser.



> VBScript

shudder

JS itself isn't bad, it's the misuse which is bad. Subtle JS use should add _extra_ functionality, not _be_ the functionality.

It's funny, I was just having a conversation about JS in freenode #python the other day and we were complaining/discussing the same thing.

The worst is when my browser freezes because of some JS that's too over the top.




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