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So, we're all familiar with the fact that imgur requires JavaScript in order to display more than the first few images in a gallery (the 'view more' link execut
by zeveb 10y ago
So, we're all familiar with the fact that imgur requires JavaScript in order to display more than the first few images in a gallery (the 'view more' link executes JavaScript; there's no way to page forward). That's highly annoying, since HTML supports exactly this use case.
It's understandable, though, because we are not imgur's customers: its customers are advertisers, and if we have JavaScript disabled then imgur's customers have less ability to violate our privacy. Thus, it's in imgur's best interest to encourage us to reduce our privacy & security, so that its customers may have their way with our browsers. I can't see that the imgur programmers would care about the fact that they can do amazing things with CSS.
But recently I've discovered that Target's website simply refuses to display products without JavaScript. This is insane: Target are, presumably, in the business of selling things. They ought to want to display a picture of their item and provide me a link to buy it; that's in their best interest. Building that sort of website is easier than building the sort of ecommerce site which cannot even display an image and a link without JavaScript. It should be in Target's best interest to do the right thing.
But it doesn't. Its programmers ought to be interested in a site like youmightnotneedjs.com, but are they? If they didn't bother to build their website properly before, is this likely to encourage them now?