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Javascript seems to have engendered web development methodologies that depend on it. Many sites seem to break without it, become inaccessible. | Javascript seems to have engendered web development methodologies that depend on it. Many sites seem to break without it, become inaccessible. | ||
* http://sighjavascript.tumblr.com/ provides examples of sites that do poorly without javascript | * http://sighjavascript.tumblr.com/ provides examples of sites that do poorly without javascript | ||
Although it is unlikely that visitors of your site still use a browser that does not support javascript as a technology, there are two other situations in which this is relevant to you as a webmaster. The first is when a search engine crawler indexes your site: they may not index text content unless it is accessible without javascript. | |||
The second situation is when a visitor of your website uses a javascript blocker like [https://noscript.net/ noscript], which people sometimes do to [https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs avoid directly consuming proprietary software]. | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
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JavaScript (JS) is a popular programming language due to its nearly ubiquitous availability in web browsers, and growing web server availability in the form of node.js.
Criticism
Sites break without Javascript
Javascript seems to have engendered web development methodologies that depend on it. Many sites seem to break without it, become inaccessible.
- http://sighjavascript.tumblr.com/ provides examples of sites that do poorly without javascript
Although it is unlikely that visitors of your site still use a browser that does not support javascript as a technology, there are two other situations in which this is relevant to you as a webmaster. The first is when a search engine crawler indexes your site: they may not index text content unless it is accessible without javascript.
The second situation is when a visitor of your website uses a javascript blocker like noscript, which people sometimes do to avoid directly consuming proprietary software.