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A gentle reminder to anyone dismissing this theme of making websites work with less javascript:

Amazon.com works great with NO javascript. Seamlessly.

You can use Facebook without JS as well: mbasic.facebook.com

I'm not sure if it's completely JS-free but Gmail also has a Basic HTML view, although you must enable JS in order to login to your Google Account.

However, this seems like a weird comment. Should it be surprising that some of the world's largest tech companies with effectively infinite resources are able to provide a JS-free version of certain services?

are able? not surprising. that they do, is nice though. twitter got rid of their no-js site, so it's not a given, even for huge websites. amazon does stand out in that their main site still gracefully degrades well, not some alternate version that's stowed away somewhere.

I am grateful for the gmail html version though. ever since they redesigned gmail I've been using that, since it still has the old interface. and it does have optional javascript based enhancements here and there, as you say (e.g. suggesting people from your contacts when typing in a recipient)

although i recently found out you can't cancel prime without javascript. took me ages to figure that one out since the site usually works for the most part

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