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> again, where is this notion coming from?

From W3C and the like. I dunno, they built WWW, I guess they have some idea what their intentions were.

> even if we scope to just text and no images, we already broken on this idea once we move beyond non-latin scripts and unicode.

Just so we're clear about what my claims are: you don't need javascript for a simple text article with a few images. The submitted article is a simple text article, with a few images. Javascript is used only to make the experience worse.

You're wrong about images and about unicode - neither of those need javascript. I don't know why you mention vt100 terminals (why so redundant?) - that's not a point I'm making.

But since you brought it up a web dev has to be some kind of clueless cunt if they can't display a bit of text with image placeholders on a text mode display.



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