Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane • Hacker News Board

Post by err4nt » Tue, May 13, 2014, 3:22 AM UTC

privong wrote: post #93

err4nt wrote: post #30

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I don't know how to say it without being blunt, but I mean no offense, I'm just curious. I've heard of this mythical type of user (no-JS) but never heard their side of the coin before. I dislike ad tracking, information culling, and I think that JavaScript underpins and makes possible many of the things I dislike about the modern web. We agree on that I'm sure. But so does a web browser. So does the operating system…

It looks like a bunch of the other replies to your query have touched on most of the points I would make, but I thought it might still be worth my response. The majority of the content I consume online doesn't _need_ js. In the sense that it's easily possible to design websites to display text and writings without needing js. So from a practical standpoint, I think js is mostly unnecessary. There are obviously servic…

The reason I do it is because of shortfalls within CSS. I USE JavaScript for styling, really simple stuff, but my sites WILL be broken if you can't run 4-10 lines of JavaScript. I don't think that's outrageous to ask for from a resource standpoint, and to rule out JavaScript because some bad things can be written in it to me sounds like ignoring English because some bad or hurtful things can be spoken in it.

I'm not sure what to do about the people who turn JavaScript off, the reason I reach for it are when HTML and CSS can't do something.