JavaScript, over the years, has become highly sought after, giving rise to a whole universe of frameworks with which today's Internet does not seem to survive.
Brendan Eich was the creator of the JavaScript language in 1995, later the founder of the Mozilla universe, which to versions back in your Firefox version 23 removed the option to turn off JavaScript .
Given that Mozilla's staff is a benchmark for Internet, usage and productivity under it, and given that they have removed the option to turn off JavaScript, I would say yes, that support staff ( users) without JavaScript will end!
JavaScript, an option?
The web does not run without HTML, but any other multimedia content or language on the client side has always been optional: JavaScript, CSS, Images, Video, etc.
The issue is that nowadays, with the demand of the target audience constantly increasing, with all the demand for dynamism and real-time operations, the constant attempt to "abolish" the boring page-refresh, it becomes difficult for any trader in the area to satisfy the current market without JavaScript.
The same goes for JavaScript:
- Real-time data validations;
- Visual effects;
- Timers;
- Dynamic content;
- Additional protection layers in applications;
And many other practical applications that make JavaScript indispensable in modern days, make it no longer an option but a necessity.
This is an acquired fact under which browser vendors work to improve and tend, like Mozilla, to evolve rather than stagnate.
JavaScript, does it have a future?
Who remembers having Flash work knows that change is inevitable and that from today to tomorrow there is something new, improved that comes to replace what we are used to.
Flash was a fashion, for years the websites were developed in flash, Flash itself grew, has been improved and has become the indispensable tool. Today, HTML5 does what Flash did, more simply, more effectively, and with fewer compatibility issues and without requiring plugins.
JavaScript will reach the stage where Flash is today, dead on the water! For now, it is a language full of life and future, but with HTML5 and CSS3, much of the need for JavaScript has disappeared, at some point it will also disappear.
Ex:
Verify that a particular field in a form is empty:
<form name="meuFormulario" method="post">
Pergunta: <input name="question" />
<br />
<input onclick="return IsEmpty();" type="submit" value="Adicionar Pergunta" />
</form>
JavaScript
function IsEmpty(){
if(document.forms['meuFormulario'].question.value == "")
{
alert("vazio");
return false;
}
return true;
}
HTML5
Just add the required attribute to our field, and the browser will handle the rest!
The technique is based on a simple principle, create something solid and functional, and then apply a whole layer of extra features that may or may not be used if the support needed for them is available.
Nothing in the paragraph above happens on most sites or online platforms today. All that is sought is to do well, fast and modern because in half a year is to erase and do something new!
- Browsers move from version to version so fast that when I do an update I'm already going 3 or 4 versions ago;
- Technologies change in such a way that the best solution we have today, in a month is a "crime" to use.
- I do a job today, in half a year the client wants something new, totally different.
But what is more important: To advance or lose an infinite amount of time to ensure that a small minority who insists on not advancing can see what others who have advanced are seeing?
ie
Working with current technology, between which JavaScript or continue to waste infinite time to ensure that anyone who uses Internet Explorer 7 with JavaScript turned off will be able to use SOpt?
I would say yes, that support for personal (users) without JavaScript will end!
