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"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." What do you mean, "app"? There's no "app" there. If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via
by astrobe_ 2y ago
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
What do you mean, "app"? There's no "app" there.
If anyone constructed a PDF, which was itself blank but, via embedded JavaScript, loaded parts of itself from a remote server, people would rightly balk and wonder what on earth the creator of this PDF was thinking — yet this is precisely the design of many “websites” [1]
[1] https://www.devever.net/%7Ehl/xhtml2 https://www.devever.net/%7Ehl/xhtml2
- zeynepevecen 2y agoThere is an app you are just seeing the landing page
- astrobe_ 2y agoOh, my bad! It's a "landing page"! Totally normal that it needs to 200 Kb of JS to display 1 Kb of text!
- zeynepevecen 2y agoThere’s an email subscription field thats why i need js hahah you’re so fond of yourself
- msla 2y agoWhat in the world are you talking about?
- msla 2y agoSo you can't write a simple form without JS? Weirdo.
- astrobe_ 2y agoDon't take it personally though, JS abuse is unfortunately common; just need to vent for once. But like the author of article I linked, people tend to just skip those blank pages. It's a tiny minority which is probably not the target audience anyway. Actual hackers would look at how you did it and make their own version.