We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)
I usually default it to only enable scripts on the same domain.
I Turned Off JavaScript for a Week
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#12I doubt if there is some alternate for the wonder full things that we can do with JS. But Its true that at sometimes things are missused and in case of JS its a top business now a days
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#13Tried 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....
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#14We 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
There are a lot of cases where turning off JS is impractical, and I don't do it myself.
But, to me, Blogger is a great example of a site that is poisoned by its reliance on JS. Blogger is so bad at showing a page of text that it needs a splash screen.
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#15On old iPhone 4 I'm using, Wired site is very slow. But with JS disabled, it runs and looks great.
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#16Switched 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.
I currently am using Midori, but maybe I should give surf a shot.
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#17wired.com, please learn from your own article and don't try to load 22 3rd party javascripts.
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#18Sure. 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.
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#19Sure. 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 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.
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#20Try 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.
Didn't know about policeman and looks really, really, nice. Will definitely give it a try! I love the idea of writing my own rules.
As for including jquery from google, of course and for good reasons, even from the user's perspective. The main one, of course is that chances are that your browser already has it cached (from other site that uses it), so retrieving it and loading it is (almost) instant.