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They should make sites incompatible with NoScript illegal. Back in my days (lol its just 10+ years) they used plain text for Web pages and used javascript like custom animation in presentations. Now only javascript is there with some html sprinkled in between.

P.S the rest of it was in Flash though. So no back button for you.

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That's just silly. The dynamic nature of javascript is what caused the explosion of websites around 2007, due to the advent of jQuery. Saying we should all go back to plain text is just being an old grump. Should it be overused? No. Just like GIFs shouldn't have been overused on Geocities.

I generally agree with you but...

> The dynamic nature of javascript is what caused the explosion of websites around 2007, due to the advent of jQuery.

I'm not convinced that was a good thing. Pretty much all of that content is terrible. Quality > Quantity

That doesn't really mean anything though in the context of things.

Sure it does. The grandparent is saying that we should have a higher quality web, and you are saying that we should have a more dynamic web.

I'm not saying we should have a more dynamic one. But JS fundamentally changed how we interact with websites, and it's here to stay. The majority of big players in the last decaded wouldn't have existed without the dynamic interaction. Saying we should go back to static only, is nonsense.

I completely disagree. The majority of big players has poisoned the waterhole. They've made the web less usable because of how they've made things dynamic. I think going back to static would have some negative impact, but it would make things better for everyone overall.

CSS is a perfectly way to design a web site using zero JavaScript. Source : I do web dev etc.

No one is talking about design. Javascript provides functionality CSS does not.

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/ http://www.ecma-international.org/

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