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0 pointsivank12y ago0 comments

It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript

0 pointsivank12y ago0 comments

It's nice that mkdown.com doesn't require JavaScript

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hnriot12y ago· 5 in thread

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.

ivankOP12y ago

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

hnriot12y ago

there are trivial ways around all of these, except the first one and that's just ridiculous anyway.

tomrod12y ago

JS is much like salt for flavoring--the less required the better.

If everything worked in elinks we'd live in a perfect world.

reeses12y ago

Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...

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