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zahlman 3 hours ago

With JavaScript disabled I had to inspect page source and remove "hidden" attributes from divs for content to show up. There's no placeholder text, no attempt to justify the need for JS at all, no consideration of the possibility that someone might be using a JS whitelisting tool (such as NoScript) on the modern Web despite its clear utility. For a blog post.

Aside from that:

> Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual...

I'll give you "descriptive title". I could write this much more directly and pleasantly.

c-hendricks 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I really feel like this genre of comment should fall under this "don't" from the HN guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

You're willingly disabling a part of web atandards.

zahlman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The web really doesn't, and shouldn't, depend on these things. I use a JavaScript whitelisting tool, so that I can allow JavaScript on pages where it's merited, when the trust for that functionality has been earned. Nowadays it's used for things that have been possible in plain HTML for decades. In this case, text has been added to HTML that causes otherwise visible text not to display, presumably so that it can fade in or do some slide-show effect or who knows what else. My annoyance with these things is hardly "tangential"; it smacks me in the face multiple times a day.

charcircuit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You are smacking your own face by disabling it. Instead of trying to get the entire world to conform to the requirements of your special browser, why won't you have your browser conform to the needs of the world.

t-3 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I don't want pop ups, ads, cookies, gdpr nagging, tracking pixels, autoplaying videos or malicious exploits. If those are the requirements of the world to read a basic article, then fuck the world!

c-hendricks 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

I hear you, but only 2 of those things require JavaScript.

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sevg an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

If you allowlist javascript then yes your annoyance is tangential, and no it is not interesting for us to read you complain about. Hence why the HN guideline (that was quoted above) exists.

(I also allowlist javascript. Regardless of your philosophical standpoint, many websites do break. If you don’t want “smacks me in the face multiple times a day” then stop allowlisting javascript.)