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It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript

• hnriot 12y ago
  why is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.
  • tomrod 12y ago
    JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better. If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.
    • reeses 12y ago
      Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch01s06.html http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...
  • slashdotaccount 12y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
  • ivank 12y ago
    1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs 2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits 3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content 4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content
    • hnriot 12y ago
      there are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.