I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

#1

Post by ayi » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 7:28 AM UTC

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week
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Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by Zekio » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 7:46 AM UTC

Tried turning off javascript completely for a time once, but then a lot(Edit: Don't actually keep count, maybe I should begin doing that) of pages are blank/white emptiness because they do all the html in the browser....

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by jakeogh » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 7:50 AM UTC

Switched to surf+tabbed and default no JS years ago. Can't imagine going back. CTRL-ALT-s enables it for the tab if it's necessary; usually not.

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by Majestic121 » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:04 AM UTC

I have been using NoScript (a browser extension to black list all JS by default) for quite a while now, and I don't see myself turning back anytime soon.

Everything feels much faster, and sober without Javascript, especially news site (looking at you, lemonde.fr)

I still allow some JavaScript sometimes, most of the time to unbreak site, but if you start you using it you will realise that most of the JS running on each site is at best useless from a user point of view.

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:10 AM UTC

Zekio wrote: post #2

Tried turning off javascript completely for a time once, but then a lot(Edit: Don't actually keep count, maybe I should begin doing that) of pages are blank/white emptiness because they do all the html in the browser....

Sure, "a lot" as an absolute number because, hey, Internet. But I bet, relatively, the number of sites doing that is tiny. I've seen it myself, but it's terrible practise, and I'm sure it's easy to avoid those sites or, if you must, whitelist them. Teach the site owners something, vote with your HTTP requests!

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by silon7 » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:10 AM UTC

We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:12 AM UTC

Disabling JavaScript makes the headline font on Wired.com much, much more legible. I'm completely serious.

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by Zekio » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:17 AM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #5

Zekio wrote: post #2

Tried turning off javascript completely for a time once, but then a lot(Edit: Don't actually keep count, maybe I should begin doing that) of pages are blank/white emptiness because they do all the html in the browser....

Sure, "a lot" as an absolute number because, hey, Internet. But I bet, relatively, the number of sites doing that is tiny. I've seen it myself, but it's terrible practise, and I'm sure it's easy to avoid those sites or, if you must, whitelist them. Teach the site owners something, vote with your HTTP requests!

I have stopped using a number(Don't actually keep a total count, maybe I should begin doing it) of sites, simply because of the fact they do it

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by agumonkey » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:17 AM UTC

silon7 wrote: post #6

We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)

That's why I didn't believe parts of the article. Yes the web loads faster, nothing can load faster than a blank page from blogger.com.

I now browse the web with curl | less

Re: I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week

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Post by pmlnr » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:18 AM UTC

Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/, that will make it even more interesting and show you that _everyone_ is including jquery from Google.