alt Hacker News> But as much as I hate to admit it, it is very difficult to build something functional today with plain HTML and no/minimal JS.
I would certainly agree that using a little JS can get you further than just HTML. But I think that a plain HTML page is far more pleasant to use (and thus, functional) than the JS monstrosities that dominate the Web today. There's a reason people use the NoScript addon: because a whole lot of website designers use JS in ways that make the experience a ton worse for the user.
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llmslave2 • today at 6:41 AM
It's not an either/or. Modern Javascript is actually really nice to write and use, and you can write it in a tight, minimal way that doesn't bloat the page or slow it down.
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> There's a reason people use the NoScript addon
To be snarky, do they? The average user doesn't even know what JS is.
Users want websites that are fast and solve their problems, with a good UI. They don't care how it's made.
Make websites that people enjoy using. A good developer can do that with any set of tools, though a no-JS approach is limited in scope.