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Software went off the rails approximately when JavaScript became mandatory to display text on a webpage.
by stephengillie 9y ago
Software went off the rails approximately when JavaScript became mandatory to display text on a webpage.
- unabridged 9y agoExactly. Its ironic his post doesn't even show up until I allow js loaded from multiple domains just to show 4 pictures and a couple paragraphs of text. Sites like his are huge part of the problem.
- microcolonel 9y agoIt's even a pain on archive, apparently. http://archive.is/fJ7nu http://archive.is/fJ7nu
- jasonhanley 9y agoThe irony is not lost on me. The unfortunate thing is that Blogger started out being fairly light and clean -- at least it was back when I migrated to it. At least static site generators are coming back into fashion. I've always considered them a better solution for media/news/blog type sites.
- microcolonel 9y agoFYI: I think you can still select blogger themes which don't require JS to render. Some people use them, including (perhaps just as ironically) the Google Developers Blog[0]. [0]: https://developers.googleblog.com/ https://developers.googleblog.com/
- tannhaeuser 9y agoThough JavaScript is of course not mandatory, the mind set and incentives in which web specs have been created by browser vendors is bound to pile up complexity, in that developing a browser from scratch is considered infeasible (last one to try was Opera), and browser vendors are rather trying to turn existing browser code bases into universal runtimes for apps. Point in case: WASM, which I consider bloated and out of place in a web browser.
- stephengillie 9y agoJavaScript from 3 other domains is mandatory for this site. It won't display even with its own JavaScript.
- tannhaeuser 9y agoSorry, I seem to have misunderstood what you meant re: "mandatory JavaScript".