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# Use of JavaScript in Fossil
## Philosophy & Policy
The Fossil development project’s policy is to use JavaScript where it
helps make its web UI better, but to offer graceful fallbacks wherever
practical. The intent is that the UI be usable with JavaScript
entirely disabled. In almost all places where Fossil uses JavaScript,
it is an enhancement to provided functionality, and there is always
another way to accomplish a given end without using JavaScript.
This is not to say that Fossil’s fall-backs for such cases are always as
elegant and functional as a no-JS purist might wish. That is simply
because [the vast majority of web users run with JavaScript enabled](#stats),
and a minority of those run with some kind of [conditional JavaScript
blocking](#block) in place. Fossil’s active developers do not deviate from that
Evil is in actions, not in nouns: we do not believe JavaScript *can*
be evil. It is an active technology, but the actions that matter here
are those of writing the code and checking it into the Fossil project
repository. None of the JavaScript code in Fossil is evil, a fact we
enforce by being careful about who we give check-in rights on the
repository to and by policing what code does get contributed. The Fossil
project does not accept non-trivial outside contributions.
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# Use of JavaScript in Fossil
## Philosophy & Policy
The Fossil development project’s policy is to use JavaScript where it
helps make its web UI better, but to offer graceful fallbacks wherever
practical. The intent is that the UI be usable with JavaScript
entirely disabled. In almost all places where Fossil uses JavaScript,
it is an enhancement to provided functionality, and there is always
another way to accomplish a given end without using JavaScript.
This is not to say that Fossil’s fall-backs for such cases are always as
elegant and functional as a no-JS purist might wish. That is simply
because [the vast majority of web users leave JavaScript unconditionally
enabled](#stats), and of the small minority of those that do not, a
large chunk use some kind of [conditional blocking](#block) instead,
rather than disable JavaScript entirely.
Fossil’s active developers do not deviate from that
norm enough that we have many no-JS purists among us, so the no-JS case
doesn’t get as much attention as some might want. We do [accept code
contributions][cg], and we are philosophically in favor of graceful
fall-backs, so you are welcome to appoint yourself the position of no-JS
czar for the Fossil project!
Evil is in actions, not in objects: we do not believe JavaScript *can*
be evil. It is an active technology, but the actions that matter here
are those of writing the code and checking it into the Fossil project
repository. None of the JavaScript code in Fossil is evil, a fact we
enforce by being careful about who we give check-in rights on the
repository to and by policing what code does get contributed. The Fossil
project does not accept non-trivial outside contributions.
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