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Comment by kevin_thibedeau | Hacker News Reader

Is there a reason why they can't just serve up an HTML page with an IMG tag rather than a completely blank page that only works with JS active?

It gets even worse. It pollutes your browser history as you scroll down the page.

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The raw images are available without Javascript. There are thousands, complete with img tags:

http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=1197&camera=MAST_

'<a href="./?rawid=1197ML0054561950503142E01_DXXX&s=1197"><img src="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/01197/mcam/1197... alt="Image taken by Mastcam: Left" width="160" hspace="0" vspace="0" style="border: 3px solid #FFFFFF;"></a><br>'

Only on the internet would images of one of mankind's greatest engineering marvels; the culmination of millennia of our insatiable urge to grow, build, and explore, be pooh-poohed because of a person's insistence on using less technology.

I know. Shame on me for expecting graceful degradation work as intended. We should all be so lucky to enjoy the modernity of broken JS browser apps.

> It pollutes your browser history as you scroll down the page.

First it was the water in Flint, MI... and now you have polluted browser history. Government thugs, man.

It's a lot more annoying than you think. I had to press my phone's back button like a million times just to get back here to complain about how bad that site is on Android browser.

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