Re: debian-to-windows message transfer
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:47:20 -0600
John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> wrote:
> Joe writes:
> > Yep, if a web designer can't put a single character on a screen
> > without using JS, the rest of his offering is not likely to be worth
> > making an effort to look at.
>
> They don't use JS. They use "website builders" that produce
> unreadable masses of HTML and JS that pull in chunks of JS from a
> dozen or more random sources out on the Net. The designers neither
> know nor care what that JS does as long as it puts the dancing doggie
> in right place on your screen.
Yes, I realise that, but it would not be beyond even the most feeble
website designer to manually edit in a string saying something like
'JavaScript is necessary to display this page', which would be
overwritten by the content if JS is enabled.
OK, it's not much, but it's less hostile than a completely blank screen
which says 'we don't give a damn about you if you don't do things our
way'.
I've seen 'HTML' embedded in emails, I know nobody has manually typed
the thousands of characters of stupid formatting markup, and certainly
almost nobody actually makes an effort to display something useful for
text-only readers. I don't expect the average web surfer to know that
there's more than one way to do things, but I do expect those who
aspire to create content to be a bit more aware.
--
Joe
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