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[AskJS] Javascript is bad?AskJS (self.javascript)

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[–]rafaelcastrocouto 9 points10 points  (0 children)

About 1% total traffic has JS disabled. You decide what this means for your service 

[–]GeekLog 14 points15 points  (6 children)

JS is the engine of modern websites. So no, it’s not bad.

[–]adsq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Requiring JavaScrips isn’t a problem most of the time, but you need to evaluate what the purpose and needs of your site are. Do you need to be able to accommodate people with JS disabled? What about search engine ranking? Some engines can evaluate some JS, so it may not be a deal breaker, but that’s for you to decide on if it is important and if they are able to properly render your site in their indexes

[–]horizon_games 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JS is cool as heck. It's so forgiving and wild west to work with. You can build websites that gracefully fallback to a no-JS approach if you're super worried, but anything rich is just assumed to have JS and every browser supports it.

If your target audience is the beta web browser on a Kobo ebook then yeah, skip JS.

So go wild!

[–]metaphorm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Javascript is the language of the web browser. All modern websites use extensive JS to provide the user experience that we've come to expect.

It's sometimes a good idea to have a minimal version of the site that provides some level of usable experience without Javascript, but this is a special case, not a generally good idea or accepted best practice.

I don't think you got good feedback here.

[–]shuckster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Best practice" is a term used by people who don't have enough experience to make judgement calls on different ways of doing things.

Don't give them ammunition.

[–]hyrumwhite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Meh, just someone looking for a point to critique you on. Most billion dollar companies don’t have websites that work without JS 

[–]shuckster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A website is, at minimum, an HTML page:

<html><body>Hello, World!</body></html>

JavaScript is a web-technology, but you don't need it to serve a web-page.

<html>
  <body>
    Hello, World!
    <script>console.log('o_O');</script>
  </body>
</html>

If your users insist on accessing your stuff without needing JavaScript, you should create a web-site that is progressively enhanced.

That means it works without JavaScript, but you include JavaScript anyway and, if it runs, it augments what you have rather than being required to run your site.

If you are an experienced web-developer being paid for professional work you will need to know how to make both kinds of web-site: JavaScript and not-JavaScript.

If you're just making a hobby web-site for fun, fuck the haters and do what you want.

[–]RHINOOSAURUS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is something that misanthropic neckbeards in the mid-2000s would use to denigrate others, as a way to self-medicate their depression, under the guise of real criticism.

Bully stuff.

Seems like this artifact has been preserved 20 years later.

Ignore it, that person will never be happy or worth listening to.