Why develop for people who disable/impair Javascript?

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Published on 2010-04-16T16:38:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 16:43 UTC
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Can someone please enlighten me as to why it makes sense to develop websites that work without Javascript enabled? This is 2010 and besides some mobile browsers on antique phones and a few paranoids who limit Javascript I cannot think of a good reason to spend energy on this.

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