gratuitous Javascript
Someone sent me a link to an article on indiatimes.com, especially pointing out something about the comments. My reply:
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I can't see any comments; they are obscured by needless, meaningless, gratuitous, Javascript.
The amazing thing is that the comment leaders load along with the main page. They're just not **visible** unless you have JS turned on. In other words, they made an effort to **actively hide them** unless you have JS turned on -- it wasn't just an artefact of whatever brain dead web development software they're using.
My policy on JS is this: if I absolutely **must** use the site (like my bank, railway reservations, bill payments, and Ultamatix) I will turn it on. Otherwise, a site that requires JS can do without my viewership and patronage.
And I most certainly will **not** switch on Javascript for a fluff rag like the TOI. What happened once can happen again.
2 comments:
I agree with you in general, but in fact I just recently uninstalled the NoScript extension for Firefox -- too many sites that I use are useless without JS :-|
I use vimperator, in which -- for the price of a file called noscript.js kept in ~/.vimperator/plugin, and a couple of "map" commands in ~/.vimperatorrc, you can type in \s to toggle termporary permissions, and \S to toggle permanent permissions.
So on the occasions where I need it that I did not already mention in my post, like youtube, for instance, I just hit "\s" (or "\S" to make it permanent)
Sitaram
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