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It's also frustrating for users that have js disabled in their browsers, that can't comment on a blog post! At least notify the user before hand! Plus the labels on the comment form are after the input fields - and the fields are inline, which makes the form hard to comprehend!

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Honestly I don't see a reason to do special handling of people who disable javascript in their browsers these days.

Almost all of them are bots anyway.

"I don't see a reason to do special handling of people who disable javascript in their browsers these days."

Ironically enough, blind people who use screen readers might see a very good reason.

Non JS users are statistically more likely to be bots than blind, so I don't see why that should matter.

And anyway JAWS use IE to read the page for the user, so it does support javascript.

I happen to prefer the web in the main with JS turned off. I may be in a minority here, but surely it's not much effort to design with graceful degradation in mind?

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