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> Nobody is going to force you to use JavaScript. But they sure try. Latest iteration of coercion is called Google AMP. Images, videos and other embeds are fi
by AstralStorm 5y ago
> Nobody is going to force you to use JavaScript.
But they sure try. Latest iteration of coercion is called Google AMP.
Images, videos and other embeds are fine, because they're clear siloes; it's easy to make sure the website degrades gracefully.
JS is not, and fonts are not. These do not degrade gracefully.
Neither do complex styles in CSS.
Canvas does not degrade either.
Gemini is a bit too simple to be really useful. What is needed is something closer to old HTML 2 before all the browser warfare, with a few small extras tossed in from later versions.
Maybe with bit more of semantic format than representational.
- Santosh83 5y agoAre you sure fonts don't degrade gracefully? The font stack can always fallback to serif/sans-serif right? Icon fonts are a different beast though.
- foxfluff 5y agoI disable web fonts. That makes many sites very difficult to use. Yes, icon fonts are a part of that, but also the change in metrics messes up some layouts rather bad.
- Semiapies 5y agoGoogle AMP is five years old. Hardly the latest anything. And it's yet another thing you simply don't have to use.
- why_only_15 5y agoI don't understand the level of interest in degrading some people have. Really I don't understand any level at all. What percent of users are running something other than an auto-updating browser?
- maxwell 5y ago> Latest iteration of coercion is called Google AMP. I changed my default search engine from GSearch to DDG a couple years ago because of AMP, but it's now thankfully dead in the water, e.g. https://searchengineland.com/google-news-app-will-display-non-amp-content-and-send-readers-to-publisher-pages-374291 https://searchengineland.com/google-news-app-will-display-no... https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/366242/amp-decelerates-few-firms-are-using-the-tool-hail.html https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/366242/amp-de... https://www.seroundtable.com/google-remove-amp-no-search-ranking-decline-31990.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-remove-amp-no-search-ran...