Why is it needed?
How would you update, modify or otherwise access the DOM on your browser using server-side only code? How would any type of advanced interface work?
Why is it needed? The web worked before all this shit. We watched videos, saw images, read text. We don’t need fucking steam games and faggotry.
You think that those sites didn't use JS? You think JS is just for steam? You do know that the mid to late-90s www was a plugin-laden landscape? If you trusted Shockwave Flash, Quicktime, Realplayer, Java, etc to load your browser down with plugins so you could access that content, then why distrust your browser's scripting engine? Those plugins were far more dangerous and invasive than JS which is restricted in its design. Plugins also made your browser heavy and unstable. Remember people running executables on your system through bugs in ActiveX and JavaVM? Come on man.
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