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Re:The problem with Angular by IgorPartola on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:37AM (#8886851)
Just FYI, Firefox has removed the setting to disable JavaScript out of its preferences dialog a while ago. Now the only way to disable it is through about:config. This means that to a second or third approximation, 100% of Firefox users will have JS enabled. I expect other browsers to follow this as well. JS is now a standard part of the web. Additionally, remember that JS is not required to track you. An invisible GIF works just as well to know which pages you visited.

BTW, how do you feel about apps running on your smartphone? Is that much different? Have you seen forecast.io? Well, probably not since you don't run JS, but check it out. Some people develop fantastic mobile apps in JS instead of Objective-C/Java and in that MO there is no option to render things server-side.

Re:The problem with Angular by pdkl95 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:48AM (#8886943)
I install noscript on every firefox install that I can. Most people like that it makes a lot of sites run significantly faster.

I don't use a smartphone - they are a pathological platform entrenched firmly on the wrong side of the War On General Purpose Computing.

For the record: I do run some javascript - on a carefully selected whitelist basis. A big part of my point is that a website that works is something that I might whitelist to access better features. The problem is showing a broken page instead of showing a basic page and progressively enhancing in the fancier features.

Re:The problem with Angular by rimantas on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @02:47PM (#8888549)
I hope you don't drive a car either: it has many computers which are even on the wronger side of the War On General Purpose Computing. How do people even come up with idea, that anything with CPU inside should be able to do General Purpose Computing :(