Holy bubbles batman.

I write this as I'm taking a break from cleaning up some horrible JavaScript code using JSLint and Closure Compiler. Not only is the JavaScript on the web usually not necessary, in 99% of cases it is totally horrible code. The horror starts with the language itself.

The web is a public place. Anyone can set up a server. Anyone can claim to be a web developer. Browsers are more forgiving than the Pope. The result is a lot of diverse creations, often the result of copy and pasting another site. This is how the web has always lived.

A drop on a hot plate is to advocate simple websites and send mails with helpful suggestions to sites that (over)use JavaScript. The JavaScript Trap [1] explains the problem quite well for those in the know about Free Software. I've not seen a convincing advocacy site for simple websites yet, but have not looked very hard either.

Thanks for the tip on 'view selection source'! It's a great Firefox feature. I never noticed that before and was using ctrl-u up till now.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html