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Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site.

Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site. First impression matter, and when your page is: SomeSite {{storyTitle}} {{storyBody}} {{curPage}} of {{numPages}} ...the common interpretation is "broken site". This current fad of being too lazy to implement progressive enhancement is a regression. Rendering on the server so you server up a actual page is trivial, and you can still provide javascript that loads the next pages faster. Serving up only a template (or worse: an empty body tag ) is insane. The usual counter is that "javascript is always available" not only ignores the risks, I suspect the claim is based on bad data. How do you know how many people disable javascript? We aren't going to be in most analytics... [1] for the numerous security and privacy reasons. Running arbitrary instructions in a Turing complete language is a bottomless pit of problems, and "analytics" is still spyware. Google shouldn't get to build a log of every page we visit.

Posted by pdkl95 on Jan 14, 2015, 2:54 PM

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Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site.

pdkl95Jan 14, 2015, 2:54 PM

Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site. First impression matter, and when your page is: SomeSite {{storyTitle}} {{storyBody}} {{curPage}} of {{numPages}} ...the common interpretation is "broken site". This current fad of being too lazy to implement progressive enhancement is a regression. Rendering on the server so you server up a actual page is trivial, and you can still provide javascript that loads the next pages faster. Serving up only a template (or worse: an empty body tag ) is insane. The usual counter is that "javascript is always available" not only ignores the risks, I suspect the claim is based on bad data. How do you know how many people disable javascript? We aren't going to be in most analytics... [1] for the numerous security and privacy reasons. Running arbitrary instructions in a Turing complete language is a bottomless pit of problems, and "analytics" is still spyware. Google shouldn't get to build a log of every page we visit.

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