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I dare it - turn off JavaScript!? Websites doesn't require JavaScript, what really needs JavaScript are Singe-Page-Web-Apps-Somethings with anti-patterns like infinite scrolling. You get two things in return, a "super duper" fast web and a more secure web-browser. For example Amazon supports usage without JavaScript very well. Another experience is Stackoverflow, things like the preview and highlighting doesn't work.…
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It does break searching for content within a web page.
Ok, but the content wouldn't be there (and thus searchable) either if the website used pagination, no?
That algorithm breaks on infinite scroll.
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I wouldn't call it an antipattern either - it literally does exactly what the programmer wants, but it's definitely a dark pattern. Most of us humans have an urge to finish things, but infinite scroll by definition never finishes. This increases engagement of users by utilizing their psychology, which is basically the definition of a dark pattern. There is an argument to be made that it also increases usability, so i…
Infinite scroll is a tool. Your problem is with pointless dark-pattern ridden attention-grabbing social media using that tool (and rightfully so!). Now imagine a useful application, like an email program. Infinite scroll is useful there. Imagine having a paginated inbox!
The pagination is a nice break and lets me know I am done, everything on back pages has been previously processed.
I dare it - turn off JavaScript!? Websites doesn't require JavaScript, what really needs JavaScript are Singe-Page-Web-Apps-Somethings with anti-patterns like infinite scrolling. You get two things in return, a "super duper" fast web and a more secure web-browser. For example Amazon supports usage without JavaScript very well. Another experience is Stackoverflow, things like the preview and highlighting doesn't work.…
What I find most interesting as a JavaScript developer is that almost no open source projects will touch the stupidity of giant SPA frameworks. Seriously, if you are writing software on your own time why burn that time away digging in the trash? On the contrary JavaScript developers that don’t contribute to open source cannot write two lines of code without some disgustingly bloated framework and a million dependenci…
I dare it - turn off JavaScript!? Websites doesn't require JavaScript, what really needs JavaScript are Singe-Page-Web-Apps-Somethings with anti-patterns like infinite scrolling. You get two things in return, a "super duper" fast web and a more secure web-browser. For example Amazon supports usage without JavaScript very well. Another experience is Stackoverflow, things like the preview and highlighting doesn't work.…
I'm 100% on board with this line of thinking, but the edge case that the business keeps complaining about is being able to push async events to the client. How would we accomplish this sort of UX without javascript?
I foster myself some weird JavaSript to allow hardware-access. But I think business itself should not be the driving force for the technical development and society.
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I wouldn't call it an antipattern either - it literally does exactly what the programmer wants, but it's definitely a dark pattern. Most of us humans have an urge to finish things, but infinite scroll by definition never finishes. This increases engagement of users by utilizing their psychology, which is basically the definition of a dark pattern. There is an argument to be made that it also increases usability, so i…
Infinite scroll is a tool. Your problem is with pointless dark-pattern ridden attention-grabbing social media using that tool (and rightfully so!). Now imagine a useful application, like an email program. Infinite scroll is useful there. Imagine having a paginated inbox!
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I wouldn't call it an antipattern either - it literally does exactly what the programmer wants, but it's definitely a dark pattern. Most of us humans have an urge to finish things, but infinite scroll by definition never finishes. This increases engagement of users by utilizing their psychology, which is basically the definition of a dark pattern. There is an argument to be made that it also increases usability, so i…
Infinite scroll is a tool. Your problem is with pointless dark-pattern ridden attention-grabbing social media using that tool (and rightfully so!). Now imagine a useful application, like an email program. Infinite scroll is useful there. Imagine having a paginated inbox!
I dare it - turn off JavaScript!? Websites doesn't require JavaScript, what really needs JavaScript are Singe-Page-Web-Apps-Somethings with anti-patterns like infinite scrolling. You get two things in return, a "super duper" fast web and a more secure web-browser. For example Amazon supports usage without JavaScript very well. Another experience is Stackoverflow, things like the preview and highlighting doesn't work.…
I'm using uBlock Origin more or less in nightmare mode ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-nightm... ): all 3rd party stuff blocked, inline and 1st party scripts blocked. Some websites work out of the box and I love them, but too many still want me to enable 1st party scripts and 3rd party resources to at least display correctly even though most of the content I'm consuming is text. This is also o…
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Assuming "trusted websites" is a user preference, why should it matter?
Because "defaults are forever" or something like that. Most people won't alter those settings, so whatever is "trusted by default" will run faster. The average user will just note that some sites are very fast, while others are very slow.
There are lots of things could be done to even the playing field. Eg require all browsers to come “out of the box” with with zero sites trusted.
This would incentivise regular sites to not use heavy JS, if they knew they won’t be JITed by default.
And by all means, if you use say Salesforce, by all means trust the site. But that tiny bit of friction is a good thing imho, analogous to running ‘chmod +x’ on Unix.
In general, I think it’s time to say that browsers should have a more refined security model, and letting every darn site on the internet access to run code on your computer is maybe not a great idea.
Web pages where compilation costs and benefits are short may be one thing. But what about cached code? And what about real applications running in the browser?
We have come a long road to establish transparent protocols to run stuff on our browsers (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSON, HTTP protocol), yet we are going to towards compiled binary code, towards black-box schema. The users will have less power of the content on their browsers with compiled code and something like ad blockers become challenging to implement again. I'm not really big fan of this trend. For example Google…
For something we do have networking protocols.