Notices tagged with javascript

Perhaps because #Javascript is usually deployed by web designers, not software engineers or sysadmins. Designers who are given with minimal to no maintenance budget, if they're even retained by the client after they deliver a website design. In practice, JS is a hot mess of known bugs and security holes, running on your browser without you knowledge or consent (unless you use #NoScript etc).

#MakeJavascriptOptional!

@davidpgil Don't #Python and #JavaScript have totally different uses? One runs on the server side (or on the client in native apps), one runs in the browser on the client side. It's useful to know both, but surely Python is useful for a much wider range of things?
@cypnk

@theguardian also, use a browser that works with the #NoScript add-on:
https://noscript.net/

It's a bit of a pain at first, selectively enabling #Javascript on the few sites where you really need it, but it massively improves the performance of older computers when using the web browser. I used to get regular freezing and crashing of my laptop while browsing the web. Not any more, and I can have many more tabs open at once without problems.

Hey #Loop, giving me nothing but a spinning beach ball when I visit your brochureware site with #Javascript turned off is just rude. You don't need JS for a simple site like this at all:
https://loopcarshare.com/

#MakeJavascriptOptional!

#HonorPay.org can't even do basic navigation around the site without allowing #Javascript from ajax.googleapis.com. Not even a website.

#MakeJavascriptOptional

@fadelkon no, it's the heavy #Javascript and the fact there's no plain HTML/CSS fallback in #Pleroma. Although you would get a better rating if you move your instance to a hosting service that runs on #RenewableEnergy.

@dredmorbius I may be misunderstanding what you were saying there, but I stop my browsers from pigging out on RAM and crashing the desktop by installing #NoScript and selectively allowing #Javascript per site, as I need it. I have 4GB RAM in my newer laptop, and 2GB in my older (32-bit) laptop, and both of them run fine now, regardless of how many tabs I've opened. Not a single noticeable system hang, glitch, or freeze since I adopted NoScript. It's gold!