No, no, that was just an example, don't worry! We test with JS off as a rule of thumb. (The new fullscreen comment reply quoting the original comment is an example: we actually did a lot of invisible work so that people without JS don't have to do a bunch of scrolling past the comment you're replying to.)

Phew, thank goodness for that! :-D

> the new comment box being only three lines high does make it a lot harder to post well-composed and well-thought-out responses

...can you give me a screenshot, please? That sounds like something's messed up but I can't guess what it might be.

Probably a not-supported-browser issue again, then, which means there's at least a hope of badgering the devs at my end to take another look at their CSS handling, rather than the text box being hardwired small...
Link to screenshot on my website