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Yet another site that doesn't load anything for me. Just a bunch of scripts and photo captions. So what are these people doing to make their stuff so elusive?
by mirimir 7y ago
Yet another site that doesn't load anything for me. Just a bunch of scripts and photo captions.
So what are these people doing to make their stuff so elusive?
- slater 7y agoThey're using Javascript, first released in 1994.
- mirimir 7y agoGood one, there. But seriously, I have no problem with over 90% of the sites I visit using this Firefox instance. But then there's wired.com and imgur.com, for example, which display just blank pages. I have no clue what it is. I've made too many changes. But I'm reasonably confident that it's something evil that they're doing, rather than something silly that I've done.
- soulofmischief 7y agoSPAs and client-side rendering, exacerbated by not using placeholders.
- reificator 7y agoWhen I visit Google Play Music in Firefox the interface loads about 80% but all clicks result in an error message. I'm fairly sure it comes down to the automatic tracking protection Firefox touts, but I can't seem to find how to turn it off for one specific site. Or better yet the specific requests that cause breakage on the specific site.
- pmoriarty 7y agoI can read it fine on emacs, using emacs-w3m, which does not understand javascript. So javascript is not required to read this article.
- benibela 7y agoAnd here it works fine in Firefox + Noscript However, the images are missing The kleinbottle website is better
- mirimir 7y agoHuh. And yes, this works: $ w3m -dump https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-mad-scientist-who-wrote-the-book-on-how-to-hunt-hackers/ | less So it's not Javascript. I wonder what I've done to Firefox. Maybe I'll take some time to figure that out.