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Interesting how even this throwback apparently requires JavaScript to run. Guess your devs couldn't stay away from the SPA setup for a single site then?
by CM30 8y ago
Interesting how even this throwback apparently requires JavaScript to run. Guess your devs couldn't stay away from the SPA setup for a single site then?
- svantana 8y agoWasn't javascript the main way to get moving elements in webpages? Here they're using css animations, which definitely weren't around in those days. So I guess the style is throwback, not the implementation...
- mrweasel 8y agoNo, it was all gifs, blink and marquee tags.
- rubyfan 8y agoDon’t forget about Java applets
- kitsunesoba 8y agoI remember applets as often being fun but also a huge source of instability. On my family’s Mac in the mid-late 90s, any time we started playing Java applet games, Netscape and/or System 7.5 would inevitably seize up and we’d have to reboot. Applets and “Sorry, a system error has occurred” were almost synonymous.
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- dan-robertson 8y agoWell the old websites worked with e.g. <blink> and <marquee> but modern browsers typically ignore these elements
- sehugg 8y agoNot if you wanted your site to work on MSIE -- I don't think setTimeout() was even supported until IE4.
- thosakwe 8y agoIs it seriously that big a deal that a website uses Javascript?
- seba_dos1 8y agoIt doesn't just "use JavaScript", it's entirely implemented in JS. Without JS, you just have an empty site with no markup.
- metamet 8y agoGood thing all of my browsers support JavaScript. :)
- superkuh 8y agoTranslating this kind of thinking back to the 90s it'd be something like, "I run random executables I get emailed." As all those browsers expose more and more hardware directly the security evaporates. It's already bad.
- thosakwe 8y agoThere’s a lot of Javascript on the Internet. If you disable it in your browser, there’s going to be some content you can’t use. It’s a trade off. Not every website has no-JS users designed in mind. I’m not defending the lack of accessibility. It’s just a reality at this point.
- crooked-v 8y agoIsomorphic server side rendering gets you the best of both worlds and isn't hard to set up these days as long as you have it in mind from the start.
- seba_dos1 8y agoOf course. Not every application running in a browser is a website just because it runs in the browser. However, here we're talking about a very websitish website, with its websiteness even being the central point of its websitey existence... and yet it doesn't work as a website ;)
- seba_dos1 8y agoIt's 300KB of JS and 3.5MB of content. Viewing it back then would be very, very painful (and even today could be way faster).
- userbinator 8y agoOn 56k dialup that would take almost 10 minutes to load.
- outsidetheparty 8y agoI'm 99% sure that's part of the joke. Personally I love how much effort was expended here to make the latest techniques look like the oldest ones.
- crooked-v 8y agoShould have used SSR if they really had to stick with the SPA angle for it.