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It's like turning your car's engine off because that uses fuel.
by papito 5y ago
It's like turning your car's engine off because that uses fuel.
- Isognoviastoma 5y agoIt's like turning your car's engine off overnight because that uses fuel.
- VectorLock 5y agoIdle-stop is (annoyingly) a thing, now.
- linopolus 5y agoThe engine is HTML. No more is needed to give me the information I want, though CSS and images are certainly nice. JS would be more like the infotainment system: Sometimes nice, sometimes annoying, sometimes dangerous.
- papito 5y agoThat was certainly true in 2005, when JS was used more to impress the audience. The modern internet is mostly useless if you do not have JS running. I would imagine you have to turn it on and off all the time because you can't do simple things, like log in.
- heavyset_go 5y agoEh, it took a few cumulative minutes to build a nice whitelist and I don't ever notice it. I do notice it, however, when I visit a news site and I'm not inundated by confirmation dialogs, ads and two auto-playing videos at once.