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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:56:52+00:00

I hear about it a bit in tutorials that I watch, that certain things

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I hear about it a bit in tutorials that I watch, that certain things won’t work if javascript is disabled. Occasionally I see workarounds.

The question is, are these relevent? I can’t imagine anyone not having a javascript enabled browser nowadays, except the most ancient of phones, and chances are your page won’t render on them properly anyway.

Do people still bother to write backup code for javascript being disabled?

Edit: As a test, I turned javascript off. Facebook doesn’t work.

Edit: I understand about visually impaired users, but do people care (harsh, yes) if their experience is buggy? Not to sound disrespectful, but not sticking to strict standards will alienate people using Internet Explorer 4 and 5 too, but we don’t seem to care about them…?

Edit: Saying that people should do it seems like a very automatic response, considering how many people use JQuery and other groovy addon libraries.

Edit: I tried a bunch of fortune 500 sites, and so far about 70% of the ones I tried have broken

Dell
Walmart
Fedex
Intel
Coca Cola
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  1. Editorial Team

    Support for JavaScript-disabled web sites a nice thought, but not of much help, and of questionable value, IMHO

    It is almost impossible to design a robust website without java script, and those that disable JS, for whatever reason, probably don’t expect much of a user experience. So if you are coding for that 1% of the population, you have no choice. But for the majority of us, it is a given that JS is there. Accessibility is a different issue, with its own challenges. When I was doing web sites for Hewlett-Packard, they had to meet strict accessibility standards, and it was tough to create anything more than very basic web pages. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.

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