As a past user of NoScript and current user of uMatrix, I can tell you a lot of sites do not degrade gracefully without javascript...
Re:Why I don't use web components
by HelloNurse on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:31PM
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"The top 500 websites" aren't relevant. Their needs and tradeoffs are different, and of course they tend to be negative examples.
Does your site work without JS? If not, what justifies the more complex development and the degraded user experience for you and your audience?
This has nothing to do with my site. I'm curious what the trend is amongst the most visited sites. You sure read a lot between the lines that isn't there.
Re:Why I don't use web components
by 5trokerac3 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @10:43AM
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I think you're right, but that number should be correlated with number of users running browsers with JS turned off, which I suspect is trivial and shrinking.
The biggest issue I've seen with virtual-DOM sites is SEO. Google's crawler started using JS a number of years ago, but there are others that don't.
I'm curious about this. A graph of say, what percentage of the top 500 websites can't run without JS, over time, would be interesting.
My assumption is that it's a non-trivial percentage, and growing.