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There’s a difference between “wouldn’t work” and “wouldn’t work as nicely”. That’s what this post is about :D Most websites would still work in the same basic way without js.

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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
OP really muddled the waters by writing:

exactly as it does with javascript turned on

That’s obviously impossible and wouldn’t be degraded.

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- cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  exactly as it does aka forms submit, logging on works, you can achieve the same thing
  
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  - Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s either exactly the same, or it’s gracefully degraded. You’re asking for two opposite things at once.
    
    For what it’s worth I support the notion that fundamental functionality should be supported without Javascript, with good old form submissions.
    
    But I also recognise that you can’t get the exact same behaviour without javascript initiated background GETs and POSTs. Easy example: A scrollable map that streams in chunks as you move it.
    
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  - axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    form validation is dogshit without js
    
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Why would someone spend tons of time on something that isn’t needed? Only a few people even know how to turn off JavaScript and chances are they will just turn it back on since nothing works.

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