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It's great if websites work without Javascript but, I don't think its fair to call them poorly designed if they dont.

The web is made from HTML, CSS and Javascript. Turn off one of them and of course things aren't going to work or look right.

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Javascript required for text rendering is incredibly poor design. For those of us with limited connections, I turn off Javascript because I don't want to download 10MB of Javascript ad tech and frameworks. This is expensive and takes forever to load on satellite and rural connections.

Good design takes these basic common issues into account.

rural != common

A quarter of the US population isn't common? Not to mention entire countries with limited connections.

Common is 50% or more by everyone's definition.

You confuse "Most" with "Common" e.g., A Toyota is a common car to see on the road. See.

> The web is made from HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Considering the World Wide Web predates Javascript by many years, and the fact it's possible to create a functional, readable, and accessible Web page without Javascript altogether, this characterization is absolutely inaccurate.

Do you ride a horse to get to work, too?

You’re an asshole. If I could downvote your post, I would.

JavaScript and CSS can add a lot of bloat, unnecessary load times, and add massive security vulnerabilities. Sometimes you just want information, you know, without waiting forever and getting hacked.

I have decent bandwidth and I still find myself turning it off a lot.

You don't need javascript to show some paragraphs of text with hyperlinks. You don't even need css. If that does not work, this is not a case of poor design, this is simply absolute crap.

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