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It's a kind of software used to make websites where you write your posts in a markup language like reStructuredText or Markdown, and once done a script transforms it into HTML and CSS. Various plugins exist, including for comments, although this tends to sacrifice your "staticness" in varying degrees, especially if you just use Disqus.
>Verdict: Cartography catastrophe. As much as I hate JavaScript, Google Maps gets a pass. I'm pretty sure the code behind it is thoroughly tested. We can just suck it up and turn JavaScript on for one of the most useful tools from the internet -- how hard is it to find something that whitelists domains to run JS anyway?
There should be something as a fallback, though, surely? Take out all the functionality, by all means, but at least give me a map image. If you can't even get link-to-zoom working to display different images, just give me a map image based on my IP location; give me anything rather than nothing.
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map
Looking forward to the author's follow up: "A day without a CPU". I am sick of lazy, profligate coders assuming that my computer is a von Neumann machine. And that just because I run their software, I am happy with it spending billions of my CPU cycles. How did we, as an industry, get to this point!?
This is everyday for me. Just whitelist the few sites that actually need it and most of the rest are fine. This should be the default. What do I care if some images don't load or CSS is slightly off? The main content is there. For sites that won't do anything without JS, I can consider whether I want to use them or not. Mostly not. Fuck other people running code unnecessarily, without my permission, on my computer. E…
I find myself doing the same if I'm not on WiFi. I'll tether my samsung phone to my laptop, disable JS on chrome, whitelist what I like, jump into incognito to temporarily whitelist some page that requires JS; when done in incognito, the site isn't permanently whitelisted, it's just for that incognito session. I know! Laborious, but it must be done. I got into this habit because of the insane number of websites that…
Just wish there was a way to install Opera Mini on Windows tablets...
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I fully agree. Do you stop to think flash/action script was "obsolete" because all this? and now we have the exact same problems...
I did a lot of Flash/Flex work - it was the bees knees of front-end dev in the days before JQuery, Firebug, Chrome etc. and was the most consistent across platforms, as the same plugin was used on each, as opposed to trying to make your web-standards-based app work on several incompatible implementations. HTML/JS/CSS didn't come close at that time, but there was hope that it would develop to make Flash obsolete - whi…
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Presumably this occurs when the site uses a CDN for their js libraries (or even their main js). After a few days you start to spot which domains need to be enabled and which can be safely ignored.
Can you whitelist a CDN but only for a specific site?
Beyond that i guess there is GRE, where you can build "firewall" rules.
For example i have Facebook blocked via it unless i visit Facebook.com directly, thus they don't see me browsing all manner of sites via their like buttons and comment boxes.
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"Work expands to fill the time allocated for its completion." This holds true for computer scripts executing a workload as well.
Developers tend to over time expand their programs to fill available memory and take up available CPU, too. My currently open text editor's memory footprint is apparently 36.6MB, and it is displaying a single file composed of ~1000 characters.
Remember when Emacs meant Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping?
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I simply will not spend time tailoring a nascent or even mature product to 0.0001% or whatever minscule percentage of the population turns off JS. If you turn off JS, you get a blank screen. Why should I accommodate your cohort? Why write unit tests for someone who takes a standardish client with above 1% market share and does something completely unstandard with it?
> For the same reason we build features in websites that work for blind people (aria tags everywhere), disabled people (accessible buttons), people who speak different languages (i18n), VIM users (GMail keyboard shortcuts), etc. From a comment below.
Some people may like it, but I'm just saying that it's not a feature that isn't disliked by some people.
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Except the schillings usually are days. And it might take JS to build the requirements in 10 days. 'Support the 0.1% of people without javascript' usually doesn't make it beyond the bottom of the backlog.
This reasoning i.e. "supporting" people who are not using Javascript make little sense. It is the Javascript and website complexity, the embellishment of data with needless garbage, that necessitates "support" i.e. work for developers. It creates more work. Serving text without embellishment requires less work, not more. At some time or place in every website development project, data exists in plain text or some oth…
+ I'm not saying 99.99% WANTS javascript, I'm saying 99.99% HAS javascript. And the economics of supporting the other 0.01% often don't add up.
So people can arrogantly claim here: 'If your site requires javascript, I don't want to use it'. But it's much more the website owner saying: 'If your browser doesn't support javascript, I don't want you as a user'. Since it probably costs more to have you as a customer then I will make out of it.
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what a ludicrous analogy. engineering is an applied science, not a purely theoretical one where you can remove the human impact of your decisions from the equation. comments like this are a prime example of why engineers need to take more liberal arts classes
I agree with you about liberal arts and have the college transcripts to prove it. Unfortunately, your HN comments have been frequently uncivil and/or unsubstantive. Would you please not post like that? It's just what we're trying to avoid here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html