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i find it highly annoying if pages show different content on the same url. many bad sites with javascript do not update their url. javascript is often used for
by aw3c2 14y ago
i find it highly annoying if pages show different content on the same url. many bad sites with javascript do not update their url.
javascript is often used for no apparent benefit. my favourite (or shall I say anti-favourite) are websites that, when I click on an image thumbnail darker the main site, show some animation and then showing the bigger image. I have experienced it many times that disabling js would directly serve me the image and do so much quicker.
some online store I use pops up details for items when I mouse over. each time changing mouse focus. I can not get a simple list with all the details to use my browsers search function with. it also has no pagination but autoloads more items on the bottom. if I revisit the page (eg after looking at an image) I have to start at the beginning again.
javascript allows website to screw with my copying. hover the mouse on a Google result, the status bar shows the proper target. rightclick and copy to get some redirection shite instead.
phew, where do I stop...
disabling js also implicitly removes a lot of advertising, pop-up windows, always scrolling bars. when I have to use someone else's computer I often cannot understand how they stay sane.
Google steals my focus, I use backspace to navigate "back". on Google that leads to me removing characters on the search and the search automatically updating and adding more pages to the history to navigate back through.
javascript often leads to sites eating my CPU. I value my battery life and CPU temperature.
I use reddit a lot on a unreliable connection. I often happily vote, just to see later that javascript pretended my votes counted while in reality they never arrived at the other end.
javascript can be great for thing but it gets abused so much that disabling made me enjoy the web much more. if something does not work, well, chances are I was procrastinating anyways and won't miss anything important by closing the tab. I did not install flash for the same reasons.
if I have to enable js for something it is two keystrokes (in opera). I can also enable it per site very easily.
- J_Darnley 14y agoI agree with your sentiments here (except battery life, I use desktops). Javascript is the cause of nearly all my most hated "features" that websites use. Disabling it makes these websites better. Google does not try to out think you. Comment boxes do not highjack your browser's hotkeys. Websites do not tell you that you can't right-click. The latest fad for thumbnail-image animation is especially infuriating. A plain link is easy. I can choose where I want it opened. I can easily toggle between a full-size image to one that fits my browser window. The worst offender in this regard even hijacked my middle click so I could not open the image in a new tab. It pushed me so far I actually went looking for instructions on compiling Firefox and looking to remove Javascripts knowledge of a middle mouse button. (I didn't get very far.) Another almost equally infuriating feature is the infinite scrolling page. I hate them. They don't add any useful interaction. The worst thing, though not directly caused by javascript, has got to be "visibility: hidden" and "display: none" style attributes. Websites love to hide things and sometimes entire pages behind them for no reason other than the fact that you can make something to click on something and have javascript show it. (Another thing I wanted to remvove from Firefox.) Some people directed me to Firebug which is great for deleting those attributes. I seem to recall Google+ doing this at its begining, now it shows me the page on the few occasions I go there.