Fuck this trend in web design, and fuck this site. I hate how javascript-heavy the web has become. Why do I need scripts enabled to read a page of text?
I was racking my brain trying to figure out why pages were blank on my default browser with extensions, but not on other browsers.
Could someone explains the tech aspect of this?
If noscript is enabled then how is code being executed? HTML and CSS tricks?
Expressing concern about the trend the web is going - executable code instead of open documents - is a primary concern if we want to preserve what's left of the open web. It's important to call out social problems like this so people get accurate feedback[1] about what is and isn't acceptable behavior.
[1] see B. F. Skinner and his box (operant conditioning)
That's some mouthful you've come up with to avoid involving "the article", which is the blindingly obvious context for top-level comments on a link aggregator.
> It's important to call out [...] problems like this
The HN admin seems to disagree.
What? This doesn't make sense.
> That's some mouthful you've come up with to avoid saying "the article"
I'm not referring to the article. That "actual problem" was in reference to the parent comment about requiring readers to execute javascript to read text.