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I understand why you feel justified in this tone, because it would be absurd to assume a web application could work without Javascript in 2019. But like... a s
by komali2 7y ago
I understand why you feel justified in this tone, because it would be absurd to assume a web application could work without Javascript in 2019.
But like... a static blog post? Why bother with JS at all? It seems like creating more work that necessary, bloating downloads, increasing load speed, and for no reason blocking out people with JS disabled (so like, not just people using Firefox with plugins, but people that browse from emacs or whatever... which seems weird, except those are exactly the kind of people that are also technologists building 20k side projects). Also makes accessibility harder than necessary.
- a13n 7y agoIndie Hackers is so much more than just a site with static content. There are user accounts and voting and commenting, just for starters. The market of people who disable JS is minuscule and very likely not worth the effort to serve. If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many sites will not work for you.
- RHSeeger 7y ago> If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many sites will not work for you. If you choose to disable a core web technology, then you should expect that many users will not work with you.
- carlosdp 7y agoPart of the point before was that it's actually not many though...
- beat 7y agoAnd since browsing the web via emacs is a huge market encompassing possibly upwards of .001% of all web traffic...
- komali2 7y agoOr more if we're talking about the slice of the market that are of the type to be interested in indie hacking projects... aka exactly the sort of people that want a editor they can hack on, or whatever.
- beat 7y agoThat makes it, what, .01%? I haven't read the web via emacs since the 1990s.