Earlier this week, I wrote about how I’m building a UI library for people who love HTML. I also published a YouTube video about it. I got a lot of excited responses and comments about it, but also a noteworthy handful asking something along the lines of this… People should not be prioritizing no-JS users. No one turns off JavaScript. Today, I wanted to talk about why that’s wrong, and why you should care about the no-JS experience.
  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com
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    10 hours ago

    Sadly, the rise of frameworks and SAAS have really killed security and accessibility through enforcement of JS.

    ‘Back in the day’ performance, download size, backwards compatibility, and non-js functionality was expected. Now it’s not even on the radar for most big corps/agencies. Many places I’ve worked don’t even care about responsiveness, which is crazy.

    Now, there are so many 25mb websites that are unusable without JS or the right device…