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Surely we can acknowledge that JS is not the cause, just as HTTP is not the real cause of all those ads you see. The problem is shortsighted business and desig
by andrewstuart2 9y ago
Surely we can acknowledge that JS is not the cause, just as HTTP is not the real cause of all those ads you see.
The problem is shortsighted business and design decisions that have prioritized squeezing every last fraction of a penny out of the page, borrowing against the user's perception of the site. In the long run, that debt is going to come due and the user is going to stop coming back to your site from lack of cost/benefit.
- adrianN 9y agoWell yes, JS is not the cause, but it's the tool that enables websites to invade their users privacy, eat their battery, and blink and slide and splash-screen ads from every angle. Before JS became so well suited for that task Flash was the main culprit. The web was better without a Flash plugin (and it still is).
- dwaltrip 9y agoIf you acknowledge that javascript is not the problem (as it is just an implementation detail), then I'm curious if you still agree with your comment above that is complaining about javascript?
- greggman 9y agoUsed "correctly" the web with JS is way better than the web without. There's plenty of sites that use JS great from actual apps to articles and tutorials with interactive examples. In fact personally I find myself disappointed when I see an article that would clearly be better with interactive diagrams but the authors are stuck thinking the web it just a transmitted book and not it's own medium but better strengths. A couple of examples where IMO JS makes the page superior to one without https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/