“Using the web in 2013 means using JavaScript”

1 · Evan Hahn · Jan. 10, 2013, 6 a.m.
From a comment by Jon Hobbs: Web developers need to stop wasting their time pandering to a tiny proportion of internet users and help to push the web forward by making the web a bad place to be if you use "old IE" or have javascript switched off. Using the web in 2013 means using javascript. My rule of thumb for this stuff: a content-rich site (like this one) shouldn't rely on JavaScript, where an application absolutely should. I use Pocket, for example, and articles would be hard to parse if ...