When I was making my color picker (0xrgb.com) - I did it with NoScript in mind as well. I agree that whenever it's possible the websites should deliver content without javascript or flash.
However the web now seems to be both - web sites and web apps. If you run a blog or a news online magazine - it's still a good old web site. It would be nice to have semantic markup and not depend on javascript that much.
But if you're writing a web app - that's becoming tricky. Semantic markup becomes a burden, since all you naturally want is a hierarchy of nested divs/flexboxes with styles (as in any other GUI framework where you have views and layouts, and not text-related "articles", "links", "ordered lists", "headlines", etc).
I always had a feeling that web apps is something out of this nature - they try to adopt cumbersome markup language, unsuitable layout engine and slowish programming language to create modern interactive GUIs. And I think since it is all too unnatural - we have this endless race of changing frontend frameworks, languages and technologies seeking for a better way to achieve the goal despire of these broken HTML/CSS/JS. There's been some progress, for sure, but it still feels like writing AI in assembler or UNIX command-line tools in C#.
However the web now seems to be both - web sites and web apps. If you run a blog or a news online magazine - it's still a good old web site. It would be nice to have semantic markup and not depend on javascript that much.
But if you're writing a web app - that's becoming tricky. Semantic markup becomes a burden, since all you naturally want is a hierarchy of nested divs/flexboxes with styles (as in any other GUI framework where you have views and layouts, and not text-related "articles", "links", "ordered lists", "headlines", etc).
I always had a feeling that web apps is something out of this nature - they try to adopt cumbersome markup language, unsuitable layout engine and slowish programming language to create modern interactive GUIs. And I think since it is all too unnatural - we have this endless race of changing frontend frameworks, languages and technologies seeking for a better way to achieve the goal despire of these broken HTML/CSS/JS. There's been some progress, for sure, but it still feels like writing AI in assembler or UNIX command-line tools in C#.