How your landing page looks with javascript turned off: http://picpaste.com/pics/pknoa-nojs.1405592840.png
Note, no scroll-bar, content sitting on top of itself, no way to navigate around the page without javascript.
Therefore - no thanks.
Note, no scroll-bar, content sitting on top of itself, no way to navigate around the page without javascript.
Therefore - no thanks.
Therefore, if the simple landing page has all of those lacks, it stands to reason (since the app. is written by the same folks that created the landing page) that the app. may likely have all the same lacks, and possibly even more.
The landing page is to attract and interest new users who are not yet using the application.
Therefore the landing page should be accessible to the widest variety of users, with the widest variety of setups.
The landing page can also indicate somewhere that the app itself requires javascript, such that users are warned they need to turn javascript on if they choose to use the application.
But the landing page should never, itself, require javascript to be readable/useful as an advertisement for the application.
In reality javascript is on by default for all major browser and you are a tiny fraction of 1% of all browser users that go out of your way to turn it off. I recommend you fix the problem on your end rather than rudely commenting on someones project.
Nowadays everyone's on facebook, and everyone's likes shiny features and eye-candy, so I would bet those values would be at 1% or less if you exclude all the robots and spammers out there.
I mean, I would only disable javascript if I had an accessibility issue and it made it hard for me, or if I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist that uses TOR behind several proxies to access the web, and even if I was, the guy is forcing SSL (kudos for that, I like it).
Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/). 2,159,875 users according to that page. Javascript is off by default until I decide the page/app. is sufficiently engaging that I want to turn it on.
> Nowadays everyone's on facebook
Incorrect assumption. I, for one, am not on facebook. Therefore, not everyone is on facebook.
> and everyone's likes shiny features and eye-candy
Fine, but the basic content of the page (i.e., the actual information vs. the shiny objects) should be accessible without needing to enable javascript.
If you actually had an accessibility issue, you'd likely have a very different opinion. Be thankful you don't have an accessibility issue.
Which "them"? 1) The developers of this app; 2) Those who use Noscript?
Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/). That page claims 2,159,875 users and is probably an undercounting.
The whole point of noscript is to have javascript off by default (to avoid a whole host of possible security exploit situations and an enormous amount of web tracking) and only white-list it when necessary.
Going to a landing page, to view the advertisement for the app., is not a reason to need to turn on javascript.. If the landing page advertisement is provides enough info, then one can decide to turn on javascript to try out the app.