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>Javascript is a prerequisite of the modern web.

Citation needed.

JavaScript is like the electricity of the web. If you disable it, it's like walking around the real world with an "emp field", sure some things will still work, but it's kind of dumb to expect the modern technologies to work without their main food source.

The technologies have evolved... Why are you trying to keep us in the stone age? Or why do you expect backwards compatibility?

the http protocol is the electricity of the web , not javascript. Javascript is more like the home automation of the web and you sure can live without it. IT is stupid to offer 0 content when javascript is turned off. Some people might check the content on tablets,phones or devices that dont have javascript turned on by default.

It is part of the HTML5 spec, which is what modern browsers implement. Not supporting Javascript is not a design goal of the HTML5 project.

> Not supporting Javascript is not a design goal of the HTML5 project.

Which is why the HTML5 spec explicitly mentions disabling scripting?

"6.1.2 Enabling and disabling scripting

Scripting is enabled in a browsing context when all of the following conditions are true:

    The user agent supports scripting.
    The user has not disabled scripting for this browsing context at this time. (User agents may provide users with the option to disable scripting globally, or in a finer-grained manner, e.g. on a per-origin basis.)
    The browsing context's active document's active sandboxing flag set does not have its sandboxed scripts browsing context flag set.
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