Post #910890

One painful thing I noticed over the past 5+ years is the trend to make websites that rely so heavily on JS that without they no longer function. JS used to be a nice way for fancy add-ons, to allow comfort but not to be a necessity. When I visit a website and the first message I read is "This *APP* requires JavaScript", I close that site again. (Already for calling it an *App* - thanks for using a stupid, bloated front-end, I guess?) Most of the time those sites then only feature 3 static pages which get served via JS tho. Why? The fuck, why? 90% of websites would need no JS to deliver their content. Yet they do for a bunch of reasons that should not be there. You wanna do asynchronous stuff? By all means, AJAX (and thus JS) are your friend. You want to minify code or use some fancy file formats? Sure, use JS. But using it to deliver plain blog posts or static content? No, just no.