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Every site should be able to function normally without JS. Granted that doesn't necessarily hold true for web apps, but for regular sites they shouldn't lose fu
by barsonme 12y ago
Every site should be able to function normally without JS. Granted that doesn't necessarily hold true for web apps, but for regular sites they shouldn't lose functionality because somebody has JS disabled (or doesn't have it at all!)
- krapp 12y agoI agree with you. I have js disabled by default and every time I run up against a site that uses client-side templating I find it incredibly annoying - I understand the rationale behind it but it's still annoying how many things tend to break without javascript. However, you can't design a browser around an expectation of what the web should be like. And anyway, it could be worse. If there were no javascript we would all be complaining about the dominance of VBScript in the browser.
- barsonme 12y ago> VBScript shudder JS itself isn't bad, it's the misuse which is bad. Subtle JS use should add _extra_ functionality, not _be_ the functionality. It's funny, I was just having a conversation about JS in freenode #python the other day and we were complaining/discussing the same thing. The worst is when my browser freezes because of some JS that's too over the top.
- DanBC 12y agoI really hope that people start installing and testing against minimal browsers. Modern browsers are fucking huge. Obviously they do very much more than browsers used to, but most of the time I really am just reading text and I don't want a bad designer's idea of novel UI to get in the way. Sadly it seems like hundreds of years of design iteration for the printed word are being weakened.