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How Many People Turn Off JavaScript These Days?

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May 03.2020

I remember some time ago, there were a number of people who would disable JavaScript in their browser, but I wonder how common that is today? I ask because I was hoping to use JavaScript for some iterative positioning of SVG elements.

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@NogDogMay 03.2020 — Anyone who does is probably used to web pages not working, but if your page depends on JS to work it's probably a good idea to use a <noscript> element to at least warn them?
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@Mr_Initial_ManauthorMay 03.2020 — It doesn't necessarily require JavaScript to function--it's a static page--but I was hoping to use JavaScript as a bit of a shortcut so instead of having:

<br/>
&lt;svg:g transform="translate(0,50)"&gt;<br/>
...<br/>
&lt;/svg:g&gt;<br/>
&lt;svg:g transform="translate(0,100)"&gt;<br/>
...<br/>
&lt;/svg:g&gt;<br/>
&lt;svg:g transform="translate(0,150)"&gt;<br/>
...<br/>
&lt;/svg:g&gt;

. . .<br/>


I could use a loop of JavaScript to set the translate attribute for each <svg:g> element. Just a little coding shortcut.
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@NogDogMay 03.2020 — I think the percentage now is very small, possibly approaching "vanishingly small". By "not working" I don't necessarily mean something "breaks", but whether or not the user can get all the (important) information from the page if JS is not active. If it's not a pretty or some cool navigation effect doesn't occur, no biggie -- but if they can't see something that is part of the main reason for viewing the page, they should at least know why if you do not provide a fall-back mechanism. And if it's just a "for fun" page, I probably wouldn't even worry about it.
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