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Re:WebUSB is dead by forgotmypw15 on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:13PM (#22231694)
I share your dream, brother. This is why I design for every browser, with progressive enhancement.

The browser you describe already exists, it's one with JS disabled, and you ignore the sites which don't work without it. This is how I browse every day.

I don't feel like I'm missing much.

I enable JS for reddit because I have to mod things, but I find myself visiting that site less and less now. HN works. Facebook works (good enough.) Gmail works. Google Search and DDG work. GitHub... meh.

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Re:WebUSB is dead by imtringued on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:58AM (#22234585)
I can already see my own apps work without Javascript support. I'll convert video streams into permanently loading gifs and add 2 million invisible pixel sized form buttons arranged in a grid on top of the entire website so that I can send pixel coordinates to my server. Oh, and there will be a virtual keyboard made out of a form element so that there is no need to listen to keyboard events. There will be a huge spike in users who disable Javascript and they will flood my servers until the site crashes from the massive load.

I seriously hope this will never happen.

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