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Yeah, cool, so like most of the modern Internet then? Accepting JavaScript's prevalence—even given its many many many many many flaws—is something us pragmatis
by KyeRussell 9y ago
Yeah, cool, so like most of the modern Internet then?
Accepting JavaScript's prevalence—even given its many many many many many flaws—is something us pragmatists that actually decide to use the Internet to do things decided to do long long ago.
- s17n 9y agoUh huh tell me more about these "things" that you "do". If there's a web app that I want to use, I whitelist it for js. For general browsing, I keep it off. Ironically, this works fine for the same reason that paywalls will never succeed - there is so much content out there that any individual piece of it has essentially no value.
- Veen 9y ago> there is so much content out there that any individual piece of it has essentially no value Zero multiplied by anything is zero, so if all individual pieces of content are worthless, so is content as a whole. But of course that's not true because content isn't fungible. There's an infinity of content, but, unless you think a cat meme listicle is equivalent to War and Peace, it doesn't matter. The best content will always be worth paying for to people who care about what they put into their brain.
- s17n 9y agoI'm talking about browsing HN - nothing getting posted here is equivalent to War and Peace. If a particular link doesn't work because of javascript, I can just go on to the next one.
- Lammy 9y agoThe page is text and static images and it's kind of absurd for it not to render without JS enabled even in 2017.