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try browsing half the web without JS enabled and it'll look just as bad

I am, actually, and it's not half as bad as you would think. I don't think that js-less browsing is so uncommon, either.

JS-less browsing is either uncommon, or it isn't. It's not something you "think", it's a verifiable statistic.

The most recent data I could find (2010) puts it at around 2% in the US. I would venture that 2% should be considered uncommon.

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/how-many-...

Fair point, but still, that's only Yahoo websites, and (to nit-pick) I, for one, don't Yahoo!

Another thing to take into consideration regarding this sort of stats is the user base. I _think_ a lot of the NoJS (or the likes) users are of the tech-savvy bunch and more likely to use sites like this one. So, I _think_ a more relevant percentage of people that have JS disabled is higher in this case.

How are text browsers (lynx, elinks) counted in the statistic? Strictly speaking, javascript isn't disabled because its not supported in the first place

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