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Comment by Nic0 | Hacker News Reader

I almost miss the thing as I use vimperator+firefox, I don't use the mouse that much.

Funny anyway.

I had to whitelist at least 4 different scripts and cross-site requests to get the desired effect. It's quite funny, but nothing I would usually notice due to my Firefox setup (NoScript, RequestPolicy and some other script/tracker blockers).

I have to say though, I like how the website works without all the scripting. It's rather rare to find a website that works decently and doesn't look severely broken without Javascript and Flash enabled. Which is really, really sad.

Practically speaking it's a choice between few visitors feeling really really sad and spending development cycles on CSS-only layout. Something like a sticky footer can be done with one line of JS or with some obscure CSS voodoo and markup. For many companies the choice is a no-brainer, assuming the NoScript users are detected and notified appropriately.

I'm not saying every website should work perfectly without scripts - I know full well what I got myself into when I started using all these filters. What annoys me are websites which are completely un-fucking-readable without dozens of scripts, x-site requesting and/or (which is the worst offender by far) Flash.

I'm fine with whitelisting your website so you don't have to bother with CSS voodoo. I am willing to whitelist your image/static domain so your site can load its content from there. I'm getting annoyed if your website requires more than three scripts and/or cross site requests to work properly, but I can put up with it depending on how much your site interests me. And finally, it's an instant ^W if I open up the NoScript menu to find dozens of scripts, trackers and other shit while your site looks like a page from a broken printer and is unusable.

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