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The existing front-page looks like it should work in browsers with JS disabled (though I have not personally tested this).

We should think carefully about the possible consequences of Wikipedia dropping support for no-JS browsers.

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It does. Being properly engineered, it's semantically accessible with any browser or scraper or mashup. Sacrificing that for a site as important as Wikipedia doesn't even deserve serious consideration.

I've been brainwashed by the article and is wondering what JS means here. IS or JS?

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