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This would be interesting if I could read it. Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS? I have read several IT books recently and they aren't g

This would be interesting if I could read it. Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS? I have read several IT books recently and they aren't good. Basic stuff like visibility of diagrams, presenting advanced subject matter but also supposedly in a way that will teach you programming, or having pages of code to illustrate something trivial.

JadeNB 6y ago
> Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS? No, because then how would it set up pullquotes like "If you don't set a baseline somewhere, you risk starting a book that grows backward" that you can tweet at the push of a button? (Is that really a thing? I guess it must be somewhere, but it's new to me on a (I guess) programmer's blog.)
- chrisa 6y ago
  You can't actually send a tweet at the push of a button (unless you're connected with twitter oauth with the right permissions), but what you can do (and that button does) is opens the tweet composer pre-filled with the quote, ready for you to then just hit "Tweet"
  - qznc 6y ago
    I used to do that on my blog. Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html Stopped doing it as I got negative feedback about it being annoying. I never tracked how many tweets I get out of it though. So if you aim for popularity (unlike me) it might still be worth it. It was one of the big reasons I used RestructuredText as markup language for my static website generator. It is extensible enough to make these tweet-blocks with just: .. tweetable :: Psychological Safety is THE core factor for Great Teams says Google
- aqui_c 6y ago
  They are just links to Twitter, no JS involved on those fragments.
dorkwood 6y ago
Someone needs to make a Hacker News bingo card. "Doesn't work with JS disabled" would definitely be on there.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
  Along with "you need JS for the modern web"
  - clarry 6y ago
    "it's just text and images"
aqui_c 6y ago
I'm working on that. I just used a stock template for the website.
- carapace 6y ago
  Cheers! Much appreciated. :-)
- dkersten 6y ago
  The low contrast text is also really hard to read.
carapace 6y ago
Yeah, I'm getting pretty sick of sites that want to run JS to show static content.

JadeNB 6y ago

> Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS? No, because then how would it set up pullquotes like "If you don't set a baseline somewhere, you risk starting a book that grows backward" that you can tweet at the push of a button? (Is that really a thing? I guess it must be somewhere, but it's new to me on a (I guess) programmer's blog.)

chrisa 6y ago
You can't actually send a tweet at the push of a button (unless you're connected with twitter oauth with the right permissions), but what you can do (and that button does) is opens the tweet composer pre-filled with the quote, ready for you to then just hit "Tweet"
- qznc 6y ago
  I used to do that on my blog. Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html Stopped doing it as I got negative feedback about it being annoying. I never tracked how many tweets I get out of it though. So if you aim for popularity (unlike me) it might still be worth it. It was one of the big reasons I used RestructuredText as markup language for my static website generator. It is extensible enough to make these tweet-blocks with just: .. tweetable :: Psychological Safety is THE core factor for Great Teams says Google
aqui_c 6y ago
They are just links to Twitter, no JS involved on those fragments.

dorkwood 6y ago

Someone needs to make a Hacker News bingo card. "Doesn't work with JS disabled" would definitely be on there.

throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Along with "you need JS for the modern web"
- clarry 6y ago
  "it's just text and images"

aqui_c 6y ago

I'm working on that. I just used a stock template for the website.

carapace 6y ago
Cheers! Much appreciated. :-)
dkersten 6y ago
The low contrast text is also really hard to read.

carapace 6y ago

Yeah, I'm getting pretty sick of sites that want to run JS to show static content.