Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore

• ackthxbye@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How about serving a proper HTML that contains the data they want to display? Instead of an empty page that tries to load the data via JavaScript.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I miss when JS was just a silly thing you could use to add trails to the mouse cursor to impress anyone who stumbled onto your geocities page

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They could just add a text box that says please enable JavaScript.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  developer.mozilla.org/…/Graceful_degradation

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is a lot simpler to just require JavaScript. It is widely supported and is default enabled on all platforms and browsers.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sending forms is a built-in functionality and you say it’s simpler to hack your way around it.

      I mean, sure, if your framework does it this way. But it shouldn’t.

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When I ask a server for a page, it should give me content, not a shitty script and a note that says “here, you do it.”

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That isn’t how it works

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sorry about your stroke

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