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I also can’t see anything when I disable my screen output. Very disappointed.

This is in fact OK. If you hate js that much then just use CURL and read it offline. I personally do not like js much either but complaining about every instance of it is pointless.

How am I supposed to use CURL to read it offline if it requires JS?

Won't work in links2 or lynx either.

Open the document in an editor and parse the script tags, find a way to reverse engineer it. It seems like you're just complaining for the sake of it.

Then there's something wrong with your browser. This is a fairly standard Wordpress site and the content is all present as perfectly standard HTML.

No, I'm referring to each Wikifunction page on the Wikifunctions site itself.

How do you propose the functions should run if you don't have JavaScript enabled?

I don't want to run the functions, I want to view them.

Also the functions execute on the server anyway (plus JavaScript isn't even the only supported language), so execution should also be possible without a browser having JavaScript enabled.

They are server side functions, not client side.

C’mon it’s 2023.

20 years after the term "progressive enhancement" was first used in a tech talk[0]. People really ought to have received the message by now: javascript as a client-side feature is a way to enhance a website rather than to build its basic functionality.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20141108064903/http://hesketh.co...

> javascript as a client-side feature is a way to enhance a website rather than to build its basic functionality.

And who decided that, exactly?

The free market. Much as I miss static HTML, the people like widgets.

The Free Market™ has very much decided it doesn't care whether a website is accessible with JavaScript disabled.

That is not how anyone wants to interact with the modern web.

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