> Websites that Require JavaScript. When I encounter a website that absolutely requires JavaScript to function so conditioned are my reflexes that I find I've backed out and off it without me even having realizing it. I can wiz through dozens and dozens of news items on Hacker News and easily bypass any sites that will not function without JS. I've never needed to worry, as on the Web there's always thousands of equivalent or alternative websites that are more 'cooperative' from which to choose.

One of my side-projects is a solitaire based card game that I am writing a server for in Rust and a client for in JavaScript.

If I presented visitors with js disabled the opportunity to download a native client (yes, real native not just handing you a single-executable bundle of a browser and the web app), would you download it?

a) If I provided the binaries hosted on my server, served to you over TLS?

b) If I linked you to it in Windows Store / Mac App Store / an Ubuntu PPA on launchpad.net / Google Play Store / iOS App Store / F-Droid?

c) If I told you to install the Rust tool chain via https://rustup.rs/ and to run “cargo install” plus the name of my package that would be hosted on crates.io?

d) If I linked you to the build instructions in the wiki on GitHub that would tell you how to build it from source?

Please rank these from most likely to least likely that you would be willing to do if you were interested in my solitaire game.

And also, how would I best demonstrate the value to you of my solitaire game? Embedded video (plain video tag that doesn’t require js)? Screenshots and text? A link to the video on YouTube?