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I'm probably not in your target demographic but when a website pushes computation to me for simple things like displaying text and images I close the tab.

ehutch79 4y ago
And congrats on getting fired for refusing to use the companies internal tools. Not all web sites are brochure-ware. Sometime the target demographic is a limited number of internal employees who open the app once and keep it open. Never mind that i don't know how you would display images server side.Your client needs to decode that image and render it to screen at some point
forgotpwd16 4y ago
>when a website pushes computation to me for simple things like displaying text and images I close the tab How will you even know without looking at the source or blocking JS across the web? Like, sure, if they've fancy animations across all elements from the moment you open the page should be obvious. But what about something like https://rhodey.org/ https://rhodey.org/? It opens instantaneously in my ancient laptop connected to a terrible internet line. Check source. Only a single empty div in body. Everything is rendered with JS.
- superkuh 4y ago
  I block JS across the web by default. For some sites I'll learn the miminum set of domains to allow for temporary whitelisting. But most aren't worth the effort.
  - rwalle 4y ago
    Sure, great for you, but most websites and most developers don't care about use cases like this and always use JS to "enhance" the UI and UX, however you interpret it. They (supposedly) need to achieve basic accessibility but then do whatever they can in the UI. I don't think anyone would care about users who "disabling JS by default", at least now.
onion2k 4y ago
If a website is just showing text and images it shouldn't really be dynamically rendering anything anywhere. Write the content to static files during deployment and serve them.
- rwalle 4y ago
  "shouldn't" Sorry to let you know that 99% of the websites on the Internet are not like this.
ranger_danger 4y ago
so basically you only view plain text files in a browser? that sounds a little extreme to me.

ehutch79 4y ago

And congrats on getting fired for refusing to use the companies internal tools. Not all web sites are brochure-ware. Sometime the target demographic is a limited number of internal employees who open the app once and keep it open. Never mind that i don't know how you would display images server side.Your client needs to decode that image and render it to screen at some point

forgotpwd16 4y ago

>when a website pushes computation to me for simple things like displaying text and images I close the tab How will you even know without looking at the source or blocking JS across the web? Like, sure, if they've fancy animations across all elements from the moment you open the page should be obvious. But what about something like https://rhodey.org/ https://rhodey.org/? It opens instantaneously in my ancient laptop connected to a terrible internet line. Check source. Only a single empty div in body. Everything is rendered with JS.

superkuh 4y ago
I block JS across the web by default. For some sites I'll learn the miminum set of domains to allow for temporary whitelisting. But most aren't worth the effort.
- rwalle 4y ago
  Sure, great for you, but most websites and most developers don't care about use cases like this and always use JS to "enhance" the UI and UX, however you interpret it. They (supposedly) need to achieve basic accessibility but then do whatever they can in the UI. I don't think anyone would care about users who "disabling JS by default", at least now.

onion2k 4y ago

If a website is just showing text and images it shouldn't really be dynamically rendering anything anywhere. Write the content to static files during deployment and serve them.

rwalle 4y ago
"shouldn't" Sorry to let you know that 99% of the websites on the Internet are not like this.

ranger_danger 4y ago

so basically you only view plain text files in a browser? that sounds a little extreme to me.