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What's funny to me is how many people forget that JavaScript is a web standard. By all means disable JS - it's great that the web offers this level of control.
by SquareWheel 5y ago
What's funny to me is how many people forget that JavaScript is a web standard. By all means disable JS - it's great that the web offers this level of control. But if something goes wrong, just remember it's the client breaking the standard, not the website. Direct your blame appropriately.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoThe WHATWG HTML standard explicitly allows for disabling scripting [1]. You are not directing your blame appropriately. [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#enabling-and-disabling-scripting https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#enabl...
- SquareWheel 5y agoThat does add some murkiness, but I don't take the existence of a switch to mean that websites need to accommodate both types of users. It's a technical requirement for features like <noscript> to work, so it needs to be defined in the actual standard.
- jameshart 5y agoRight - the standard provides tools you can use as a site to discover that scripting is unavailable and gracefully degrade - if you so choose. It also provides marquee and blink elements but you’re not obliged to use them.
- grayhatter 5y agoSorry, we only support users who download and autostart our spyware, I mean user experience enhancement plugin. I's not required to create a site at all, but agreed options are good. And "Because I could" is a perfectly fine reason. But the argument is "should" I require JS not "could" I.
- account42 5y agoEncrypted Media Extensions is also a web standard, yet I won't let that stop me from discouraging its use. Flash used to be a de-facto web standard. Yet sites building their navigation entirely in flash were just as shit as sites requiring JS to display some text and images.