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(I am an engineer who worked on this feature)

The docs are indeed viewable without JS[0] (in a limited way) but the default experience relies on JS to render text.

We don't render all content on the page at once for performance reasons, which is (as a sibling speculated) the driving reason for overriding cmd+f/ctrl+f by default.

I hope to write an engineering blog post soon about how we build the Stripe api docs, with some focus on the performance and UX tradeoffs at play here.

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/api?javascript=false




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