Comment on MkdownparentComments−ivank12yIt's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript−hnriot12ywhy is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.−ivank12y1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content−hnriot12ythere are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.−tomrod12yJS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.−reeses12yElinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...−slashdotaccount12yhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
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It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript
why is that nice? Isn't that like saying, "it's nice because it works on an EGA monitor"? javascript is a much as part of "the web" as html.
1) I don't have enough CPU and memory to run everyone's JavaScript in hundreds of tabs
2) JavaScript is an additional vector for exploits
3) Wayback Machine can't archive and render most JavaScript-only content
4) Most search engines besides Google can't index JavaScript-only content
there are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.
JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.
If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.
Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement