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http://lite.cnn.io/en https://text.npr.org/ Every site should have a plain html option. Or create their html so that it works fine without js or cnn.
I'm trying to assemble a list: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html but so far there aren't many sites like this that I found useful.
I can only applaud this effort!
Install uBlock Origin and do it every day! I block all JavaScript, then re enable it when needed to fix a site. Often I just need to enable 1st party scripts in the uBlock Origin grid to fix it. Make sure you enable advanced mode to see the grid.
If you're serious about giving this a whirl, uMatrix is even better for fine-grained control. I disable everything except first-party images and CSS by default and it's like a whole new internet. There's a bit of a dance you have to get used to when things don't work, but I've got it into muscle memory now so I don't even think about it. I tend to click around in there enabling the first few obvious things for about…
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I thought progressive enhancement. I think people expect much more interactivity now, (I think google maps was a driver and web based email as well), so it became harder to do pure back end. For example a lot of the queries I run now show a dynamically generated graph. I can do that on the back end, but much easier to use a javascript charting package. I guess I could just use javascript all the way down
> I think people expect much more interactivity now, This keeps coming up. Personally I keep thinking that devs and cv-driven development might be to blame as I rarely hear any customer demand anything that demands a frontend framework for their web sites (now web apps , that's another story).
Install uBlock Origin and do it every day! I block all JavaScript, then re enable it when needed to fix a site. Often I just need to enable 1st party scripts in the uBlock Origin grid to fix it. Make sure you enable advanced mode to see the grid.
Install uBlock Origin and do it every day! I block all JavaScript, then re enable it when needed to fix a site. Often I just need to enable 1st party scripts in the uBlock Origin grid to fix it. Make sure you enable advanced mode to see the grid.
If you're serious about giving this a whirl, uMatrix is even better for fine-grained control. I disable everything except first-party images and CSS by default and it's like a whole new internet. There's a bit of a dance you have to get used to when things don't work, but I've got it into muscle memory now so I don't even think about it. I tend to click around in there enabling the first few obvious things for about…
uBlock Origin doesn't have CSS or image control per domain but it's the JS I worry about!
Might as well try living a day without water.
Back in 2006/7 I remember we'd use "progressive enhancement" to make a site work without JavaScript and then add JavaScript enhancements for those who had JS enabled. At some point (maybe after the popularity of Google Maps?) nobody wanted progressive enhancement and it was totally cool to just ignore users who had JS turned off. It made web app development so much easier, but probably less user friendly. It feels li…
It does make development easier, and at some point it just doesn't make sense to support any longer. If the number of people who visit your site with JavaScript disabled is less than the number of people who visit using the Opera browser, does it really make sense to add [number of supported browsers] x [JS on | JS off] permutations to your testing workload? Is spending the time and resources on creating a non-JS sit…
It depends on what you're doing. If you're building an app (something which would make more sense as a native program anyway), then sure — use JavaScript. But if you're displaying text and images, then HTML & CSS are perfectly capable of handling that.
In general, I think that a good content-focused website will work equally well across all browsers. There's no need to force end-users to allow you to execute code on their machines in order to display paragraphs or images.
> I'm more worried about the recent trend of sites not even working in Firefox anymore, just Chrome.
And I'm worried about the long-standing trend of sites not even working in lynx, links, elinks, eww or w3m anymore, just Firefox, Chrome & IE.
Back in 2006/7 I remember we'd use "progressive enhancement" to make a site work without JavaScript and then add JavaScript enhancements for those who had JS enabled. At some point (maybe after the popularity of Google Maps?) nobody wanted progressive enhancement and it was totally cool to just ignore users who had JS turned off. It made web app development so much easier, but probably less user friendly. It feels li…
They haven't and now we're in this javascript SPA mess.
These type of articles are a shame and are only written to instigate fights among developers. The world is using JS, it's on every major app. Get over it or make something better.
Back in 2006/7 I remember we'd use "progressive enhancement" to make a site work without JavaScript and then add JavaScript enhancements for those who had JS enabled. At some point (maybe after the popularity of Google Maps?) nobody wanted progressive enhancement and it was totally cool to just ignore users who had JS turned off. It made web app development so much easier, but probably less user friendly. It feels li…
You are correct that it is simply not worth it. It was not worth it and we dropped it thankfully. Hopefully we can drop stuff like internationalization with all its wasted effort soon as well. Regarding JS, I hate its overusage as much as the next guy, but it is in no way a reason to block it all. Nobody is going to waste time to develop for inferior platform (web without JS logic) just so you alone could see an infe…
How can we drop that, force everyone to speak Esperanto?