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Comment by ams6110 | Hacker News Reader

Might be a good idea to at least put

  <noscript>This page requires JavaScript</noscript>

on your site. All I see an expanse of white.

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The last few lines of the article shed some light on OP's opinion of browsing with JavaScript disabled:

"you need to support browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled.

... ok, that last one was sufficiently low-probability that I'll stop there before I start telling you not to use Meteor if your customers gave up their computers in favor of the abacus."

I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...

But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?

For a sufficiently lax definition of "browser", no.

> why not CSS

Disabling useless CSS stuff is pretty much what Readability is all about.

Besides, CSS generally doesn't claim much of my CPU to display peripheral stuff. Javascript, on the other hand ...

I'm running a boilerplate firefox and on first load, I saw the same thing.

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