Comment on Google now requires JavaScript

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    <form method="GET" action="https://duckduckgo.com/">
      <input name="q" type="text"/>
      <button type="submit">Go</button>
    </form>
  

  This is a fully functional search bar. This is all it needs to be. It doesn’t need Javascript, only if you want suggestions.

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  • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not about looks, it’s about functionality. I could add a hundred lines of CSS to make it sparkle without touching Javascript.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like lack of accessibility? I generally use reader mode, because it gives an actual good user experience rather than “one that doesn’t look like the 90s”. I’m not sure if it turns off JavaScript, but it clearly turns off the crap that it does. Maybe half of websites work that way, the rest I either skip or click to turn off reader mode.

      I just tried google, and reader mode is disabled, which is a problem for people with accessibility issues.

      Does EU have accessibility protections? Does google give the same ad filled, cluttered, crap as the rest of us? What if you try reader mode

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• x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t need javascript to serve their website, and their website hasn’t really been updated all that much. So there wasn’t really any reason to stop supporting it.

  This change is very likely meant to be against privacy respecting users.

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