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What staggers me is when sites like Twitter decide that JS is now required to read a tweet...Like it's literally some text like what you read on HN but it needs
by aboringusername 6y ago
What staggers me is when sites like Twitter decide that JS is now required to read a tweet...Like it's literally some text like what you read on HN but it needs damn JS...Why?! The entire website could work as a simple .txt file for all I care, no reason why it should be so bloated.
All sites like FB, Twitter should by law be required to work without JS at a minimum due to how important they are in our society today.
- progval 6y agoTwitter's goal is explicitly to have a single codebase that works everywhere: desktop website, mobile website, and mobile apps. (Sorry I can't find a source for this, any search with the "twitter" keyword is flooded with irrelevant results...) It makes sense in that context; but I agree it's a shame they won't keep a small alternative frontend just to view tweets.
- ryandrake 6y agoI think the point is: you don’t need a “codebase” to display text and images. Which is what the vast majority of web content is: text and images.
- shamas 6y agoWhy? Why should you be in a position to dictate to twitter how to operate. It's a multi-million dollar company with many smart people working away on the product. Who are you? If you just want walls of text and a completely unengaging product, stick to hackernews.