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WRT your website, it's quite nice of you that you've added the message "you need js for this website". Maybe better if you add a little personal information to

by gkya 10y ago

WRT your website, it's quite nice of you that you've added the message "you need js for this website". Maybe better if you add a little personal information to that message too, like "Hey I'm Doug, I'm a software dev, and this is my website. You need JS enabled for it to function. Otherwise reach me at <mail <at> domain>." This'd be more intriguing to enable JS. And when I enabled it I liked what I got, a nice idea. WRT Bret's website, it's the type of website I'd pass if I wasn't told that there's sth. interesting in it. A black window w/o JS, and when enabled, it takes 5-10 seconds to just show me some text b/c needs to load custom fonts and loads of JS, and then messes up my scroll. Yours is a creative thing and I like it, but this one just imitates badly the normal scolling. Plain awful.

dougk16 10y ago
Hey thanks, really nice focused feedback there that I will take action on. A pipe dream I have is to actually make the engine powering my website work without JS as well. So a zoom/swipe navigation would actually go up to the server to get a fresh static html page that would render all the cells at their appropriate location/size. Kind of like how the very first map apps worked online. It would be a little clunky obviously but I think still usable. I had no idea Bret's website would be so polarizing! I appreciate it in a more idealized sense, so "assuming JS is enabled and scrolling works right and you have a fast internet", and of course for the content itself. If he was the kind of person that had to look for jobs then I'd recommend fixing those things as well.
- gkya 10y ago
  I guess who don't have JS in these days are mostly the ones who disabled it in purpose. So a message inviting them to enable would be enough. Also, it's harder for some handicapped people to use interactive websites, so they'd rather have a nice plain alternative than an imitation of the interactive site that's equally harder to use. And, you're welcome :) Bret's website is an obstacle to the content therewithin. If all he cares is getting hired, then well... But if it's sharing information, he should fix that website.

by gkya 10y ago

dougk16 10y ago

Hey thanks, really nice focused feedback there that I will take action on. A pipe dream I have is to actually make the engine powering my website work without JS as well. So a zoom/swipe navigation would actually go up to the server to get a fresh static html page that would render all the cells at their appropriate location/size. Kind of like how the very first map apps worked online. It would be a little clunky obviously but I think still usable. I had no idea Bret's website would be so polarizing! I appreciate it in a more idealized sense, so "assuming JS is enabled and scrolling works right and you have a fast internet", and of course for the content itself. If he was the kind of person that had to look for jobs then I'd recommend fixing those things as well.

gkya 10y ago
I guess who don't have JS in these days are mostly the ones who disabled it in purpose. So a message inviting them to enable would be enough. Also, it's harder for some handicapped people to use interactive websites, so they'd rather have a nice plain alternative than an imitation of the interactive site that's equally harder to use. And, you're welcome :) Bret's website is an obstacle to the content therewithin. If all he cares is getting hired, then well... But if it's sharing information, he should fix that website.