http://awuuwa.i2p/webpages/why_no_javascript.html
If it wasn't for javascript the web browser market place could have easily lots and lots of small competing browsers that only implement the HTML/HTTP standard which is enough as explained above. Here's the thing, there are already lots of small web browsers that implement HTML out there, that do it perfectly fine and comply with what the web standard should be, but they don't do javascript, so no one uses them since the web as it exists today forces javascript down...