• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    18 days ago

    Isn’t it basically a fundamental underlying technology of the web I don’t understand how you can have it disabled and still be able to access modern websites.

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      18 days ago

      it isn’t. that is html and css, some would argue it’s html only.

      javascript is not needed to load a website. It’s useful for interaction, and needed to load content separately and dynamically. without it you get a mostly (but not totally) static document like in Office Word

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          4 days ago

          that does not mean javascript is essential, and mox’s point is still very valid.

          using WASM instead of JS is not better either. you simply don’t need any clientside executable code on a read-only view of a page