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> and I could browse the web with fewer distractions—all without the sense of guilt that comes with using an ad blocker Never felt the slightest skerrick of guilt for using an ad blocker. Instead I feel mildly virtuous in doing my own small part in helping the idea of an ad-supported internet die.
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Keep in mind Google is blocked in China, so if you include jQuery from Google, it's not going to work for over a billion people.
Is it really fair to include the total population of China in this statement?
You can argue the other 85% doesn't have internet access or isn't your target audience. However, I run a site that's geared to the US market, it's entirely in English, and 12k of my registered users are from China (1.5%). If I included files from the Google CDN, I'd be losing 1.5% of my users due to one line of code.
Whoa, this guy managed to uncheck "enable javascript" somehow? Glad to read such a cutting edge article. In seriousness, disabling javascript (and enabling it selectively when things inevitably break when I was using NoScript) grew too tedious for me after a while. There are simply too many sites that require JS to function properly. Others may disagree and enjoy clicking constantly to enable select javascripts to ge…
> In seriousness, disabling javascript (and enabling it selectively when things inevitably break when I was using NoScript) grew too tedious for me after a while. I'm sort of inclined to agree. I really want to like NoScript, but every now and then when I use NoScript for a couple of weeks I get frustrated with it and disable it. Sure, having it disabled is also frustrating, but it's a different kind of frustration a…
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I think that simple content such as blogs, news and the equivalent should not be implemented in js-dependent web apps. Web browsers are a platform for sure, but the simple content should stay simple.
It have thought for a while now that the web and correspondingly the browser should be bifurcated into a content platform with no client side code and an application platform without the burden of the older technologies. The browser would provide all the interactivity and logic for the content platform through implementations of standard html tags. For the application platform, the browser could provide a more conven…
Sure. If you believe that the browser should only be a document reader and not an application platform then go ahead. It's kinda like buying a smartphone and then using it exclusively as a phone though.... I think the real point of irritation here is all the 3rd party junk that gets loaded in that has nothing to do with the main functionality of the site that you are on.
I believe the browser should be exactly what it is, without using javascript. I'll always block javascript, whitelisting sites which 1) fail to work without it and 2) which i really want to visit. If you need javascript to present information then you're either not a very good developer or else you don't care about the user experience. Degrade gracefully; you can still display text and images without javascript and a…
But it can still be disabled in `about:config` > `javascript.enabled`
I used and loved Firefox since more than 10 years so far, but can't truly understand some decisions they took.
I'm not paranoid and I don't have anything to hide but I object to being tracked to have stuff sold to me.
In Firefox, the "disable javascript" checkbox is now gone from the settings --why would they do that? But it can still be disabled in `about:config` > `javascript.enabled` I used and loved Firefox since more than 10 years so far, but can't truly understand some decisions they took.
In Firefox, the "disable javascript" checkbox is now gone from the settings --why would they do that? But it can still be disabled in `about:config` > `javascript.enabled` I used and loved Firefox since more than 10 years so far, but can't truly understand some decisions they took.
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You only save bandwidth the first time the resource is accessed. After that it's loaded from the browser cache! So over time, the band-witch saving by minification is insignificant.
So, the answer to bojo's question is "Yes.". > After that it's loaded from the browser cache! Unless the resource changes, the UA's cache is cleared, the file is served with incorrect caching headers, the cache expiry time specified in the resource header is reached, the resource is loaded by a UA that doesn't cache...