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> Most web apps I work with daily have highly sophisticated in-browser interactions that are built with JavaScript and can only be built with JavaScript: Flickr
by dham 11y ago
> Most web apps I work with daily have highly sophisticated in-browser interactions that are built with JavaScript and can only be built with JavaScript: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc.
Highly sophisticated browser interactions? You mean adding a comment? Which you actually just did on Hacker news using zero javascript.
None of those sites need or require a lot of Javascript. In fact, when I use Gmail I have the standard html version set to default. It's much faster and time to inbox is faster.
- chriswarbo 11y agoLines prefixed with "> " usually indicate a quotation. The line you criticise was quoted from the article, not the Hacker News user.
- mod 11y agoIt's commonly used to quote the article. I guess in this case he should have attributed it, but it's not an unusual use-case.