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We have HTML and CSS, which evolved quite a lot and already allow for what 90% (estimate) of the websites do. Usually it is people using JS, where they should
by zelphirkalt 5y ago
We have HTML and CSS, which evolved quite a lot and already allow for what 90% (estimate) of the websites do.
Usually it is people using JS, where they should not and tracking from FAANG and others, which are the reason to block JS. You are painting a wrong picture there.
If 95% of the web devs used JS in appropriate ways and it was not used so much for spying on people, well, then it would be a different story.
- scrollaway 5y agoYou say that, but even if all trackers disappeared today, everybody and their alt account would still be complaining on HN about javascript omnipresence, "why are you using React when you could do this serverside" and what not. (And if you agree with telling people they're doing their development wrong by using JS for anything less than an in-browser implementation of Starcraft, you're painting yourself as the arbiter of what is and isn't appropriate -- please don't.) Hating trackers is rational. The JS hate on HN, is not.
- drran 5y agoIt's possible to create javascript-less sites with partial hydration, e.g. by using Svelte and Elder.js. They are loading fast and working fast. They are favored by search engines. They have much fewer issues with accessibility. These people, who advocate to use aged JS libraries to poorly implement modern HTML5 features while breaking accessibility, are the weirdest form of Luddites ever.
- dang 5y agoWould you please stop breaking the HN guidelines? You've been back to doing it repeatedly lately. This is not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html