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I see it the opposite - website designers have decided that they are entitled to decide what my keys and mouse clicks do, among other immensely annoying things.

In short, no you are not. Get over yourselves.

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Well, there you go - a sense of entitlement. You are visiting other people's virtual property and yet you have a nerve to demand how they should be serving you their content. Do you not realize how ridiculous it sounds?

I bet you're less than 1% of digg's traffic and you just have to disable noscript to be able to browse it. It's not like you're stuck on IE because of your job.

What does IE have anything to do with this?

I was pointing out that from my perspective, the entitlement of web developers has gotten so out of control that disabling JavaScript is the best way of making the general web tolerable to browse.

IE has to be specifically coded for because it doesn't support modern web design fundamentals. NoScript users have to be specifically coded for because of the same reason.

How often do you run into a website with Javascript that breaks your experience? Would it not be better to have a blacklist than a whitelist?

When I run into a website that breaks my experience, it slows down my computer, crashes the browser and takes away the comment I was about to write. No, thanks.

So then we're back to the previous comment: what does IE have anything to do with this? If your browser crashes because of a misbehaving script... I'm not saying you're using IE, but you're surely not using a browser that fits your needs. Chrome simply crashes the tab, and Firefox hangs for a few seconds until it asks if you want to stop the script.

What you're looking for is browser sandboxing, and it exists.

I highly doubt that brigade is 1% of Digg's traffic.

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