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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.
by 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 agoJS 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 agoElinks, 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 agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
- ivank 12y ago1) 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 agothere are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.