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Do web sites really need to cater for browsers that don’t have Javascript enabled?
Only supporting users who have Javascript enabled.
How common is it for Javascript to be disabled
How many people disable Javascript?

I’ve been doing web applications on and off for a few years now and each application I write seems to have more javascript than the previous one.

A frequent comment is: "But what if the user turns off Javascript?".

I take the point, but I’ve never actually seen a user do this. Not once.

Have you?

Answer 1

This comes up about every other week or so. Did you search first?

See these:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/121108/how-many-people-disable-javascript
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/379735/how-common-is-it-for-javascript-to-be-disabled
Only supporting users who have Javascript enabled
Do web sites really need to cater for browsers that don't have Javascript enabled?

The main points are:

• Google doesn’t use javascript when indexing
• Mobile browsers (smart phones like the iPhone) sometimes have bad or non-existent javascript
• Screen readers don’t do javascript well, if at all, and many developers are legally required to support them.
• Thanks to filters like NoScript, the number of people browsing with javascript disabled (at least initially) may actually be going up.

So yes, you still need to worry about it.