Perhaps it's the responsibility of each website using slider.js to degrade gracefully on their own. That seems more appropriate to me. In which case, I don't mind if they don't bother to degrade while demoing their javascript product.

Are you really demanding that the author of an open source javascript project to supply non-javascript code to make your website backwards compatible? You've gotta be kidding me.

That's not his responsibilty at all. Try contributing to an open source project instead of complaining.

Yep, I absolutely expect that. Especially on the example page.

Problem solved:

It's very easy to handle a Javascript fallback for Slider.js: Instead of having an empty container in which your slider will be templated, put the content for the non-javascript into it.

That's it ;) Just because the Slider Javascript will empty the content of it ;)

(Side thought: maybe I'm wrong, but in 2011, are we still need a JS backwards?)

So now you have 2 problems:

1) Your website requires backwards compatibility

2) It's not his problem

Better whine and complain on the internet until someone fixes your problems for you.

Yeah, I can't even scroll the page on Chrome