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JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.

If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.

Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...

1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs

2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits

3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content

4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content

there are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.