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Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure. Just yesterday I was trying to use the Sendgrid su
by wlll 8y ago
Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure.
Just yesterday I was trying to use the Sendgrid support site. I was logged in. There was a "click here to login and send a support request" button (and no other way to create a ticket). clicking it just reloaded the page. There was a login link (even though I was logged in). It may as well have been a static image, you couldn't click it.
After a few minutes of trying the button finally worked. When writing my ticket the support system would scroll the page down on every single keypress so that the text field was aligned with the bottom of the browser and I was typing on the bottom few pixels of my browser and display. It was awful.
Unfortunately this "certain level of interactivity" is what I've come to expect from Javascript heavy websites. News sites where the content doesn't load. The re-rise of loading spinners, delays, errors, my CPU fans being exercised While. Displaying. Text.
> No one would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver over a manual one.
No, but I'd complain if it took an hour to open my front door, took all my strength to do so, then when I finally got into the house it just fell into a pit and I had to start again.
I hate the rise of Javascript, and I resent that it has made the web a significantly worse place.
- JohnFen 8y ago"Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure." And copious security issues. This is why I block all Javascript by default.