Hi Jason,
Most of the helpers rely on js like same-height, full-height, elastic-
height, elastic column, vertical-center and full-width since the
engine need to do calculations to position these elements correctly.
Also without javascript you only have support for four columns, you
can nest up to 4 columns on every column.
The Elastic Engine is pretty fast and we are woking in make it faster,
we recommend you to use Elastic CSS Framework with all hte javascript
features to take advantage of its full potential.
Cheers,
Sergio.