requires javascript (indiepocalypse social repost)

[packbat]

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okay, no, actually, I think it's actively harmful when a page is intended to display static information - text and images you can't edit - and requires javascript to do it

any website building tool which functions that way is actively doing harm

no we will not explain

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"no I will not explain" = "no I can't explain" but trying anyway re: javascript static sites

take as an assumption that resource expenditure matters

kay? let's start there

the bandwidth required to transmit fonts, text, images, and so on matters

the electricity spent on computation to execute scripts matters

the resources mined and burned to build machines capable of processing and presenting data matters

all of this matters

now imagine the exact opposite of that

building everything on top of a pile of client side javascript is what that exact opposite implies

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"how much electricity is your website burning because you built it to run on scripts instead of being just text and images?", we ask.

they don't care, so they use these script website tools

"how much more electricity will be burned if the tools you give website builders make mountains of javascript?", we ask.

they don't care, so they build these script website tools.

and that doesn't even get into our next question: "why should we trust you to run code on our computers?", we ask.

they don't care about that either.

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yes, we hate these things because they're rubbish

but we hate them more because they're born out of indifference and callousness at best, and active hostility at worst