Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Funny, from my standpoint, more functional JavaScript almost always feels like service degradation - as in, the more I block, the better and the faster the website runs.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
personally I think this is mostly due to for some reason people tend to give up on visiting a website if it takes more than a second or two to load, so instead they load a mostly blank page (which gives the sign that its loading) and then use javascript to load the rest of the content in.
that and fucking ads galore
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
And trackers.
And Javascript that give you the time in the page, as if you didn’t have a clock on your desktop.
And Javascript that give you a fake chat window to talk to a shitty AI nobody wants in the bottom-right corner. And Javascript to annoy you with GDPR shit everybody absent-mindedly click away anyway. And Javascript to inform you that the site uses cookies, as if it mattered since it won’t work without cookies.
And of course, all that is done by loading megabytes and megabytes of shit recursively from a kajillion nested addresses because web "developers couldn’t code tight code if their lives depended on it. All they do is import pre-chewed shit that act as trojans for more trackers and more ads to serve up barf people by and large don’t give a shit about.