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Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on why javascript is required to read a blog entry.

No, it should not be.

If it's any consolation, it doesn't work with javascript either. I middle-clicked the "previously described" link and it took away the blog entry that I was in the middle of reading.

I see this at many sites, including, most frustratingly of all, within Google's various help sites.

I don't know enough Javascript to understand why that behavior is so often created. Is it so hard to respect the "classic" "canonical" middle click behavior?

It's a WebKit issue: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22382 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255

Wow. Seems like such a simple and obvious problem and fix, it's educational to see how long it has taken to not get fixed.

and then readability to fix the ridiculously thin font

http://i.imgur.com/9Oy37.png

What browser/OS are you using? It looks fine for me (Win 7 + Firefox): http://i.imgur.com/BNjXj.png

Chrome on OS X.

Hmm, I don't have an OS X machine to test it on. Chromium on Linux looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/kEiQ2.png

I think it's an issue with the font renderer or font specific to your browser/OS combination.

And I didn't manage to read it with Javascript and IE8. It seems that it's all because he uses http://sitebricks.org/ for his site. It is also unreadable the same way.

You're right, javascript should be required to browse the web, not just a blog entry.

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