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tomw

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Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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Once again I have put an apology between the <noscript> tags

Sorry friends, I would have made this work without Javascript, but I didn't have time and at this point, seriously, most websites don't work for you, do they?

(That isn't what I wrote, I just said sorry)

tomw,
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Anyone who is seriously using the web with JS turned off in 2024 must be getting captcha-blocked from half of it and blank pages for quite a lot of the other half

tomw,
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Statistically it's probably more worthwhile testing your site on IE11 than for non-JS users at this point

tomw,
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@robstyles @sil Yes, but a lot of these are just that the browser/connection is broken in some way, which... yeah, you should allow for that. But as an error state, at this point in the web's development, not an entire supported alternative path

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@sil @robstyles Yes, I am fully aware of all of this. You might as well argue that we design a whole alternative path in case someone's train tunnel etc makes all the images fail to load, makes the CSS fail, etc. It is not reasonable in 2024 to have fallbacks for all of these scenarios.

I'm not saying we should be the kind of scumbags who don't load a text article if JS is off, but "only for enhancement" is dead.

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@sil @robstyles Ironically, that page does not work if you turn off Javascript. Nor does it fall back to anything useful.

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@sil @robstyles Yeah, I'm not building anything that 100% refuses/fails without JS. More like: this widget over here needs JS, theoretically there could be a fallback here, but it's not a priority, sorry.

tomw, to random
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People are all about fact-checking their information until they see a 'poll' that has their favoured party ahead from Johnny's Polling & Wings Shack. Instant share

tomw,
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Ahem, excuse me, you say Labour are ahead here, but @ electionguessingdude has Lib Dems on 78.9%!! What do you say to that good sir!!!!

tomw, to random
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That feeling when you commit to a big project with no idea how to actually do it, and then... you figure out a way!

(I don't know how universal this is actually, but I do it more often than you'd expect.)

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Today I learned that the "DIZ" in "FILE_ID.DIZ" stands for "description in zip" – because it is a description text file inside a zip file.

I wondered about this at the time, but not enough to have gone looking for it since. Nice to have a loose end tied up.

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