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That sounds backwards to me. It's corporations which are generating the vast majority of the HTML in the world. Individuals can stop writing JS (and for conte
by ken 7y ago
That sounds backwards to me. It's corporations which are generating the vast majority of the HTML in the world. Individuals can stop writing JS (and for content-first websites, I have), but that won't stop us from having to see it.
Turning off JS entirely will kill a lot of common webpages, so that's not really an option any more. Instead, everybody runs a content blocker, to try to battle with corporations over what dumb junk we're exposed to, or exposed by.
Corporations are also writing most of the popular web browsers. This isn't a fair fight.
- zzo38computer 7y agoI do disable scripts. I find that some web pages will still work if you delete or hide an element that covers up everything else (and the script would presumably hide or delete), or unhide an element that is normally hidden (that the script would normally unhide). This doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.
- krapp 7y ago> Individuals can stop writing JS (and for content-first websites, I have), but that won't stop us from having to see it. And that's the rub. None of this is actually about wanting to improve the web with a sane minimalist subset of HTML, or separating "documents" from "apps", it's about wishing the web never left universities, never got mainstream, and never got complicated by modernity or tainted by capitalism. But you can't put that genie back into the bottle and, honestly, I don't think it should be done were it possible. The modern web enables a great deal of creative freedom and cultural expression which simply wouldn't be possible if it were only plain hypertext documents.