&gt;Really, it&#x27;s hard to see what one truly needs JavaScript for<p>It&#x27;s a Turing complete language. You truly need it if you want to do any computation in the browser, modify the DOM, work with Canvas or make asynchronous requests.<p>Yes, we could all go back to the way the web was in the early 90&#x27;s when every site was nothing but text and images (and the occasional Java applet) but doing so would also disregard a lot of the very interesting things that javascript allows the web to do as a platform for serving applications as well as documents.<p>It may be true that most of the web might not absolutely need it, but let&#x27;s not pretend it serves no valid purpose at all.