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Oh my lord, this article is non-sense. Had you gone to a website and had not been able to read anything I would say... good point. But you went to a Wordpress a

by ibdf 8y ago

Oh my lord, this article is non-sense. Had you gone to a website and had not been able to read anything I would say... good point. But you went to a Wordpress admin to prove your point. Lord have mercy... you're really going to hate your experience once WP switches to a JS based editor. Quick, let's try using Facebook and other apps built on JS frameworks and complain about the functionality not working. Let's try searching data tables with JS off, and let's try making ajax requests to load data over time instead all at once. It's not only in your browser it's in your phones, in apps that provide you services you can't live without. These type of articles are a shame and are only written to instigate fights among developers. The world is using JS, it's on every major app. Get over it or make something better.

moistoreos 8y ago
Cue web assembly advocates.
80386 8y ago
I know a guy who built a single-page web app for a blog. Really. It takes a few seconds to load the post titles, it'll make your computer grind to a halt if you have more than two tabs of it open, it took months to write, and it doesn't do anything you couldn't do with plain HTML and some AJAX request handlers... but Brawndo has electrolytes! I bet it looks pretty good on his resume.
- ry_ry 8y ago
  I know a guy that made a model ship in his spare time. It doesn't carry any passengers or cargo, doesn't meet even the most basic safety standards, and frankly doesn't do anything you couldn't do with a canoe. I bet it looks pretty good on his mantelpiece. There comes a point where you have to ask yourself - does it matter that he built (what I assume is a personal) blog in framework du jour, simply he just wanted to?
  - 80386 8y ago
    Not a personal blog -- this was a paid job to replace an old platform that a community was using but could no longer maintain.
    - ry_ry 8y ago
      Oh gawd, if he was paid market rate it's a pretty questionable decision... At least he didn't write his own css preprocessor or something, I guess!
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bahjoite 8y ago
The whole point of the article is that not everybody is able to use javascript, for a variety of reasons, and it makes perfect sense for apps to provide as close to equivalent functionality as is practicable.
avhon1 8y ago
>Quick, let's try using Facebook [...] built on JS Facebook has a no-js version of their website which suffices for all of my purposes. https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com

by ibdf 8y ago

moistoreos 8y ago

Cue web assembly advocates.

80386 8y ago

I know a guy who built a single-page web app for a blog. Really. It takes a few seconds to load the post titles, it'll make your computer grind to a halt if you have more than two tabs of it open, it took months to write, and it doesn't do anything you couldn't do with plain HTML and some AJAX request handlers... but Brawndo has electrolytes! I bet it looks pretty good on his resume.

ry_ry 8y ago
I know a guy that made a model ship in his spare time. It doesn't carry any passengers or cargo, doesn't meet even the most basic safety standards, and frankly doesn't do anything you couldn't do with a canoe. I bet it looks pretty good on his mantelpiece. There comes a point where you have to ask yourself - does it matter that he built (what I assume is a personal) blog in framework du jour, simply he just wanted to?
- 80386 8y ago
  Not a personal blog -- this was a paid job to replace an old platform that a community was using but could no longer maintain.
  - ry_ry 8y ago
    Oh gawd, if he was paid market rate it's a pretty questionable decision... At least he didn't write his own css preprocessor or something, I guess!
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bahjoite 8y ago

The whole point of the article is that not everybody is able to use javascript, for a variety of reasons, and it makes perfect sense for apps to provide as close to equivalent functionality as is practicable.

avhon1 8y ago

>Quick, let's try using Facebook [...] built on JS Facebook has a no-js version of their website which suffices for all of my purposes. https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com