I am a long time lurker here, though not a programmer, but a system admin and professional manager, open source enthusiast. A trend which I am seeing is that websites may use latest programming paradigms and designs to make them beautiful and stunning, yet they are so engrossed in javascript and 'awesome' interactive graphics and images, that a website cannot be viewed without javascript and images disabled. To save bandwidth or during slow wireless speeds, it is desirable to run browser without javascript and images disabled but websites don't have any kind of 'text only' versions for such use. In an ideal situation, every website should have 'text only' version which can be opened in CLI browser like Links. As an example, this startup http://qfusionlabs.com/ website looks like blowing a bubble without javascript and images disabled.
Edit: I am glad that Hacker News works perfectly without javascript and images disabled! Why can't all of discrete websites be like this.
