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Should I Bother To Develop for JavaScript Disabled?

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    Has the time gone to think about user with JavaScript disabled in browser? Ot it's still need to be consider

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Jitendra Vyas
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For web apps, yes, I think it's okay to require JavaScript because it's the nature of web apps to provide a rich, interactive user interface.

More simple websites like blogs, portfolios or brand websites should be able to work without JavaScript, in my opinion. I make all my websites work without JavaScript.

I know a few people who disabled JavaScript or block it with NoScript due to security concerns or because they are annoyed of animations.

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It is as it has always been, IMO. It just depends if you want to target 100% of the population, or if you don't care about the M % who have a completely outdated browser, and the N % who disable JavaScript.

M and N tend to decrease, and I don't care about them much. But your boss or your investor could be of a different opinion.

I'd find it more important to make an app accessible to disabled persons (who don't have a choice), rather than caring about those who have a choice but choose not to use a modern browser with JavaScript enabled.

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It depends very much on your intended audience.

A personal blog on web development, for example, will have very few visitors with js disabled.

A business website, on the other hand, might have more old-fashioned business executive types who come to visit, and it may be very important to make sure the site is accessible to them. They are the customers, after all!

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I haven't considered this in a while for most sites I've worked on given the user base I typically have. Largely, it's a matter of knowing your user base and what they have enabled. You can use various analytics scripts to determine this.

Along the same lines, I am more careful now about providing a good experience on mobile devices when it comes to using Javascript widgets. For example, I avoid using a lot of resizing tricks since they cause problems with pinch-zoom and orientation flip functionality and dropdown menus since they're difficult to use on a mobile touch screen.

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