• communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    It’s not paranoid to complain about the unnecessity of javascript when all you want to do is read a public text post on a social media platform. I have javascript disabled on some browsers, and it’s annoying to have to whitelist a site that really shouldn’t need it.

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      2 months ago

      Isn’t it basically a fundamental underlying technology of the web I don’t understand how you can have it disabled and still be able to access modern websites.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        it isn’t. that is html and css, some would argue it’s html only.

        javascript is not needed to load a website. It’s useful for interaction, and needed to load content separately and dynamically. without it you get a mostly (but not totally) static document like in Office Word