Discussion on: People disable javascript in their browser? 😱 Give 'em something to cry about!

[peerreynders]

please share your ideas with me on how to take this a step further!

In November 2020 heydonworks.com went the opposite direction — to view the web site you had to disable JavaScript:

But JavaScript isn't the point
… it, is that forcing a visitor down a specific path just so that they can access the content is a burden that they should not carry.

In truth most visitors wouldn't know how to disable JavaScript even if they wanted to. Which leads us back to:

• Everyone has JavaScript, right?
• Why Availability Matters.

and not in production-level websites.

Sure but some other resources might be nice:

• Responsible JavaScript: Part I, II, III
• Book

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Unrelated but perhaps thought provoking — (Mobile) Apps Must Die (2011):

(Native) apps are a remnant of the Jurassic period of computer history, a local maximum that is holding us back.