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bahador | 4 years ago

Asking hners to enable JavaScript is dangerous. Many here are anti JavaScript.

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It's less "anti Javascript" and more against "it's a great idea to base the entire web around loading completely unverifiable and uncontrolled executable code from anywhere in the universe."

Javascript is a reasonably nice language for what it does, and if it was all still mostly inline or browser managed packages or whatever the modern ecosystem would likely be significantly less of a user-hostile dumpster fire.

1vuio0pswjnm7|4 years ago

Like millions of others, this site looks great in a text-only browser that has no Javascript support.^1 If automatically running other peoples' Javascript or some other "feature" of a popular browser^2 is preventing someone from viewing the text, and the only way to avoid this annoyance is to disable the feature, then the problem is not necessary the feature, but how the feature is being used. People who disable or avoid the feature are not necessary anti-[feature]. They are trying to avoid the effects of how that feature is being used by web developers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)

2. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave, Firefox and so on.

Cybergenik|4 years ago

my bad, it's a Gatsby site. Need JS :/

bahador|4 years ago

You did nothing wrong. No need to apologize.

jaclaz|4 years ago

I read your post in QTweb, Javascript disabled, just fine, so it must be something else.

FabHK|4 years ago

Site renders fine for me in Safari on MacOS with JS disabled.