How do we stop Javascript

Make HTML actually useful, and then Javascript wouldn't be necessary. You faggot engineers live in a fantasy world where consumers prefer command prompts to images, audio, and video. It took decades just to get properly working and tags. It'll be another decade before you faggots come up with a simple way to vertically center a piece of text. tl;dr kill yourself, faggot

This so fucking much. I try to use pure JS when I have to use any JS (frontend developer here, it's shit but makes big bucks), and then when I search the internet for "js how to do something" ALL THE FUCKING ANSWERS ARE FUCKING JQUERY.

The only reason javascript flourished unopposed among the masses is because normies were taught that downloads and .exe's are malware-infested botnets, and that websites are safe because you're not downloading anything or running any programs. If it's slow, you get a new computer and you're done.

Still infinitely more readable than Realtek's "GPL-licensed" r8168 driver full of fucking hex.

Why not?

It's the smallest, well defined and least opinionated with good performance. Single file about 10kb. On opposite end you have Angular which requires pulling 200 megs of garbage off npm just to get "properly setup" (heavily opinionated) hello world plus mandatory typescript.

Having view controller and standard way to handle data bindings to-from template to javascript is very handy. That's why frameworks exist. I don't see why they should be humongous near-blackbox kitchen-sink installations like Angular. Do you?

Yes it is.

Uh oh! Wolfram|Alpha doesn't run without JavaScript

Flexbox can vertically center a piece of text no problem. Works on every browser released since at least mid 2012, maybe even before that.

Other then that, people want too, but ever since the browser wars in the 90s the W3C has cucked it. Had Netscape devoted more time to implementing useful shit instead of , maybe we could have.

My TI-84 Calculator doesn't need JS.

would it really be a bad idea to implement a discrete video player that can embed itself in a document and resize itself accordingly? Did all that work on CSS go to waste? Does Holla Forums just want to use a hyperlinked .odt reader?

This. That's the fault of Internet Explorer mostly, because it was easier to just believe jQuery would mitigate the cross-browser hell somehow (it didn't).

I started to laugh at the funny joke but then I realized that this is basically what all single-page-apps with built-in routing do. Take HTML template and render it on the screen without ever actually changing the "route".

If you ask me, whenever I click an .mp4 or .webm link, I have the browser set to open videos in system media player. That's because one of my computers is a weak-ish laptop. And the one that isn't (gaming computer) had poor playback in-browser anyways for mp4 or extremely compressed webm's that play perfectly fine in the system media player. E.g low frame rates, or "frozen frame" while audio still plays after seeking.

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maybe.
Web development strikes an impression of a lot of wasted development I think. Not just this case though.