The relevant question is: Why do user agents without JavaScript support still exist?
I don't care what kind of agents they are - bots from some sucky search engine like yandex, outdated screen readers or lynx installed on some freaky geeky nerd's Pentium 3.
Everything must be ES5-compliant these days. Period.
If my website cannot be archived by the Internet Archive (like anyone gave them a permission to do so, anyway), it's entirely their fault, not mine. And if I want to present my info to some link scrapers or aggregators, I'd rather generate an RSS feed. Or it would be much better if some JSON-based feed standard already existed for this purpose.
JavaScript doesn't just serve behaviour enhancement any more. It is a full-blown platform for the modern Web citizens.
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The relevant question is: Why do user agents without JavaScript support still exist?
I don't care what kind of agents they are - bots from some sucky search engine like yandex, outdated screen readers or lynx installed on some freaky geeky nerd's Pentium 3.
Everything must be ES5-compliant these days. Period.
If my website cannot be archived by the Internet Archive (like anyone gave them a permission to do so, anyway), it's entirely their fault, not mine. And if I want to present my info to some link scrapers or aggregators, I'd rather generate an RSS feed. Or it would be much better if some JSON-based feed standard already existed for this purpose.
JavaScript doesn't just serve behaviour enhancement any more. It is a full-blown platform for the modern Web citizens.