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Whoo boy does that site ever not work without javascript... Sort of ridiculous since it's a static page advertising a desktop app, neither of which should require javascript at all.

EDIT: Oh God, and hot pink highlighting does NOT complement their color scheme. And for all its javascript fanciness, it doesn't handle resizing at all. Sorry to be so negative, this site just pushes all my buttons.

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well it's 2012, the overwhelming majority of users have JS enabled

You are right, but nowdays there is an (albeit small) trend in the opposite direction (dont enable javascript) with privacy-conscious users using noscript/scriptno and such.

In which case, those users should be accustomed to half-broken sites and creating exceptions where necessary, just as I am with Flashblock.

This site is not "half broken" without javascript, it just doesn't exist at all. I'd understand that if it did a bunch of fancy js tricks, but it doesn't, it doesn't even adjust the layout for small screens (which would be easy given their design).

I hope the majority of users enjoy having their keystrokes logged, since that's the new trend among analytics engines.

The pink highlighting is probably a result of using http://html5boilerplate.com/.

What sort of sites are you visiting that do work without javascript?

Nearly all of them.

Many agencies build their sites to work without JavaScript.

Highlighting is red on my end...

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