"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:mailman.433.1331409882.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Saturday, March 10, 2012 14:41:53 Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> You know what I think it is (without actually looking at the code): I >> think >> they tried to do some highly misguided and even more poorly implemented >> hack >> (which they no-doubt thought was clever) for dealing with *cough* "old" >> *cough* browsers by inserting a meta redirect to a hardcoded URL, and >> then >> used JS to disable the meta redirect. If that's the case, I don't know >> how >> the fuck they managed to convince themselves that make one drop of sense. >> >> When I used one of my web developer plugins to disable meta redirects, >> the >> screwy behavior stopped. And like you, I have JS off by default (WTF do >> you >> need JS for on a goddamn *ARTICLE*?). So that's probably what the >> numbnuts >> over at Dr Dobbs did. > > Well, much as _you_ hate JS, many people don't turn it off, because > regardless > of how good or bad it is, enough relies on it that many would consider it > too > unpleasant to try and use the web with it off. And if everyone's using it, > then > there's no reason _not_ to use JS if you think that it best solves what > you're > trying to do. >
"Everyone" *isn't* using it (even for a non-literal usage of "everyone"). And I have it turned off because the web is not *not only* "unpleasant" with it *on*, but, for me, borderline unusable. > Now, normally I wouldn't think that you'd need JS for article, and their > particular solution may have been a bad one, but it's not like it's > uncommon > for web developers "Common" and "not stupid" are *very* different things. You're making a patently false assumption that the former implies the latter. > I would think that you'd be running into problems like that all the time > with > the esoteric web browsing setup that you have. > It may seem that way, but it's *much* less trouble then what I had before I blocked flash (with NoScript), installed AdBlock Plus, and disabled JS (also with NoScript). Seriously. No exaggeration. I literally *cannot* read a page when there's shit animating around it. You can? Other people can? Most people can? I don't give a fuck. Good for you. Seriosuly, don't even think of using a "*most* people aren't like that" argument. Every goddamn thing about me is outside of the holy, sacred motherfucking "bell curve of relevence" (Ie: "If you're outside the bell cure, you're not relevent"), and has been for my whole goddamn life. No more. These days, *anyone* who pulls any sort "common case vs exceptional case" bullshit excuse around me, for anything, can go fuck themselves. "Join us! Be just like us! Submit! Conform!" <-- fuck the goddamn idiot sheep