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> I'm so tired of people using "it doesn't work without JavaScript!" as an argument. To me it sounds as relevant as saying "it doesn't work without HDMI!" I do
by chriswarbo 10y ago
> I'm so tired of people using "it doesn't work without JavaScript!" as an argument. To me it sounds as relevant as saying "it doesn't work without HDMI!"
I don't understand your reasoning; I don't have any HDMI equipment (except my RaspberryPis, which are headless servers anyway), so I certainly would avoid anything that's HDMI-only.
Just because you, at the moment, only use the Web for a few pre-approved purposes (e.g. viewing rendered pages) via the handful of user agents which support Javascript, on operating systems supported by those user agents, on hardware supported by those operating systems, which is powerful enough to run it all, that doesn't mean everyone else is. Some are less fortunate, as they have older, or less-powerful equipment. Some are more fortunate, as they are using the Web in more imaginative and novel ways than you are.
- random_rr 10y agoOkie doke, you are missing out on a lot of HDMI-equipped hardware, and if you don't use JS, you are missing out on a lot of JS features. Web pages can be rendered any which way you please, it's no skin off a developer's back if you don't have JS enabled for their JS project.
- chriswarbo 10y ago> Okie doke, you are missing out on a lot of HDMI-equipped hardware, and if you don't use JS, you are missing out on a lot of JS features. I don't specifically avoid HDMI, I've just never encountered a situation which involved HDMI. Also, I hear it's riddled with DRM, and I don't see the point upgrading when it seems to be becoming obsolete anyway (DisplayPort? ThunderBolt? Newer USBs? etc.)