gibbergibber - 2:10 pm on Oct 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

--The third and growing reason is power consumption: more people are using mobile devices with finite battery life and less processing on the browser means more battery life - that's a real incentive to limit or disable Javascript processing.--

More and more mobile device browsers do support Javascript though (and flash too). It's not just in the highest end $500 - $1000 models but also in phones that can be bought for $200 new and unlocked. In 5 years time I'd expect most phone models to support Javascript.

Having used these kinds of devices for some time, I can't say that javascript being on or off makes any noticeable difference to battery life.