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A Month With JavaScript Disabled
Around a month ago I disabled JavaScript. Since then for both home links and techie related I've accrued a list of 101 unique exceptions. And there are at least 50-100 more that I didn't add to the exceptions list because their site's functionality was not seriously degraded enough for me to add one.
I'd say most of the ones I added to my list could easily have been designed to use no JavaScript while a small percentage were very heavily in need of the dynamic power of JavaScript.
Question, with so many find platform specific technologies and techniques, why do we force a kludge of HTMl, JavaScript and CSS to make a usable web application? I really think when a web site needs to start having JavaScript considered, it's time to think about building a real client side application.
- ArtDev 13y agoThere was a time when disabling CSS and expecting to be able to surf the web was normal. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709#c15 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709#c15
- Nodex 13y agoIf you disable Javascript you have to accept that not all websites will work. If you disable Flash then not ALL video sites will playback video. It's not rocket science, apparently hipsters think it's cool to disable Javascript and moan that they cannot browse the web. Grow up
- aaronem 13y agoSure. It'd be a lot easier to develop client apps for all of Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and then expect ten thousand triathletes to install something in order to register for a race that sells out in an hour, than to offload most of the form-handling work into Javascript that talks to a lightweight backend doing little more than data validation and storage.