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I pressed the power button on my monitor, and now the website is all black.

seriously what is up with people who believe JS should not exist on the web? We are way past that now. It's not gonna happen. Reactive apps are just required for some parts of the modern web.

> what is up with people who believe JS should not exist on the web

They said it: privacy

Yep, privacy.

Those of you who work writing javascript to fingerprint browsers and collect user behavior in exchange for a paycheck, you are the worst kind of person.

There are a lot of you on here and I expect to be "punished" for this view, but my view on this will never change.

The push-back is not from the tiny number of JavaScript developers writing finger-printing scripts, but rather the huge number of JavaScript developers (including me) who are offended that you’re unwilling to run JS because you’re afraid that it’s going to finger-print you.

You have a right to take steps that make you comfortable that your privacy is being protected. But don’t complain about websites not working if you’ve decided you don’t trust them to run JavaScript.

Thank you for the laugh haha

I threw away my laptop, now the website is completely gone.

The developer has of course provided a print stylesheet (expect no less from a pro). Just print it, frame it, hang it up on the wall and voilà! A no-JS confetti demo right there in your living room.

Sadly, the demo does require scissors and a colour printer/coloured markers to experience fully.

Hard to get much more obvious than that. How else did you think this was implemented as a front-end library?

If someone told me it was pure CSS, I'd believe them. I'm not a frontend dev, so I'm always impressed by what you can now do without having to import a whole JS library.

I am a frontend dev and agree it could be done with CSS similar to this [0]

[0] https://codepen.io/jh3y/pen/oNqdmbW

a whole JS library gasp

libraries are in every language.

now that you mention it it would be neat to implement this as a bunch of overlapping gifs or a fanciful css animation

I haven't understood this approach. If you're going as far as not using js, do you not use a mobile phone? No loyalty programs? No credit cards? How intense is your approach towards security?

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