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There's clearly at least two camps of HTML advocates: a) Conservatives: "HTML is just fine as it is" b) Progressives: "HTML is a great idea but needs a little
by pphysch 4y ago
There's clearly at least two camps of HTML advocates:
a) Conservatives: "HTML is just fine as it is"
b) Progressives: "HTML is a great idea but needs a little more work to be a great implementation"
- giantrobot 4y agoThere's a problematic "c" option whose domain could be served entirely with HTML and CSS but insist that some multi-megabyte JavaScript monstrosity is the only possible solution. So they weigh down every news article, blog post, and effectively static document with said JavaScript. It's not a little more work, it's reimplementing things browsers and servers already do with JavaScript replacements. They deliver a naked script tag and then do everything in heavy JavaScript.
- deafpolygon 4y agoThe majority of these bulky javascript code is used to track you.
- giantrobot 4y agoTracking JavaScript is entirely separate from the framework-to-show-text bullshit design of many pages. They're bad before all the tracking gets loaded. The tracking makes them worse.