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Couldn,t agree more. Factually, most websites created for presentation rather than documentation are wholly reliant on JS, even if they're structured to "also"
by ROARosen 6y ago
Couldn,t agree more.
Factually, most websites created for presentation rather than documentation are wholly reliant on JS, even if they're structured to "also" work without JS (which itself shows you the issue.) So there's no reason not to create a standard from that for the future.
We can even have a subset of JS to be used as some sort of safe mode which would only allow the representational parts to run.
Of course HTML can still exist, just as PDF still exists. But it shouldn't be required
- jazzyjackson 6y agoI already have "safe mode" it's called disabling javascript. Anyway, I understand that there's dogma around how necessary javascript is so lets say we agreed -- how do you want to draw the website? For me I've never met a better box model than HTML. Tried looking at qt and flutter but they feel like visual basic to me, a handful of components to arrange according to their rules. HTML is like paper, I can cut out pieces in whatever shape I want. (Then again, it took me a long time to get my head around html/css so now I'm building a GUI/no-code site builder, but of course the output is HTML/SVG so it can render anywhere. And I only use JS to update attributes instead of waiting for a page reload. I figure if amazon.com can work without javascript, it must not be very necessary :)