Random quote from a random comment from a random person:<br><br>"... I really hate the present AJAXification of the entire web - it's no
longer possible <br>to fully surf websites on a 400MHz machine like the XO-1
without having to turn <br>off Javascript and Flash <br> <br>
Javascript programmers are doing the very same thing that gave Flash a bad name years ago: Bloat."<br><br><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1739838&cid=33108256">http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1739838&cid=33108256</a><br>
<br>Add to that the reasons I listed earlier in the thread:<br><ul><li>It can slow down things significantly, because code is being
executed browser side. Some code parses the entire DOM of the HTML
document and do things with it. Some code polls remote servers
constantly for information, ...etc.<br>
</li><li>It can be a vector for security attacks (Cross Site Scripting).</li><li>It can be a hindrance to accessibility.</li><li>It can be an obstacle to content getting properly indexed in search engines.</li></ul>And the Firefox NoScript extension is staying enabled on my laptop ...<br>
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