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Can't view with javascript disabled. !@#$ that.
by inetknght 8y ago
Can't view with javascript disabled. !@#$ that.
- aerovistae 8y agoNot to be rude, but honestly can you view anything with JavaScript disabled anymore? I don’t exactly blame the website.
- samastur 8y agoThis website, as one example.
- blub 8y agoA very large amount of websites can be used without JS. Microsoft have stopped giving a damn a long time ago, and require JS from a dozen domains just to display a bunch of text documentation. They're definitely worse than your average JS-only website.
- bo1024 8y agoIf you're genuinely curious, then I highly encourage you to try it out. For me, I can view almost everything I want and am much happier with javascript disabled by default and enabled only when needed.
- aerovistae 8y agoDoes it help you bypass paywalls? Asking for a friend.
- bo1024 8y agoDon't know, kinda doubt it though.
- amiga-workbench 8y agoWhy on earth should you give every document you open arbitrary code execution rights?
- dingo_bat 8y agoIt'd be a little hard to show a PPT without some js viewer.
- dmitrygr 8y agoIf only we could invent a way to show static documents reliably. We could call it, say, a Portable Document Format. And we could have a reader for it that anyone could install and see said document. Hm, what a world that would be.
- engi_nerd 8y agoIf only PDFs were purely static
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoPDF is a proprietary format. Is it really considered better than JS?
- blub 8y agoPDF is an ISO standard, it's not proprietary. And yes, it's better than whatever JS is cobbled together for presentations, of course, it was designed for documents, not blinking things on the screen :)
- vram22 8y agoYes. It became an ISO standard (ISO 32000) in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#History_and_standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#History_and_standardizatio...
- computerfriend 8y agoThat hasn't been the case for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
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- developerdanny 8y agoHow can you expect a webapp to work with javascript disabled?
- inetknght 8y agoPlenty of web apps work just fine with javascript disabled.
- rimliu 8y agoOnce upon the time there was a thing called server side rendering.
- developerdanny 8y agoGood point.
- bo1024 8y agoI generally agree with you. But just so you know, in this case if you enable a few scripts, a download button appears and you can read the file in libreoffice or whatever you use.
- inetknght 8y agoYup. It's also just a redirect to a downloadable powerpoint with the original URL embedded in the linked URL. No need to enable scripts at all. Just Microsoft doing their Micro!@#$ thing.