A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 9, 2019 0:06 UTC (Wed) by q3cpma (subscriber, #120859)
In reply to: A new free-software forge: sr.ht by roc
Parent article: A new free-software forge: sr.ht

It may be ahead, but it's quite behind when it comes to basic functionalities without Javascript enabled, sadly.

A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 9, 2019 2:32 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (2 responses)

If I was building a Web client I wouldn't bother making it work at all for the negligible number of users who would insist on disabling JS on my site. Any effort spent on that would give a bigger payoff by spending it on something useful for the vast majority of JS-enabled users.

A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 9, 2019 2:34 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

Especially if it's open source so that ornery minority can maintain their own JS-free fork if they really want to.

A new free-software forge: sr.ht

Posted Jan 17, 2019 14:07 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

This is hardly surprising from you, knowing your background.

See, I have a love-hate relationship with Mozilla, and this post from you clearly falls in the "hate" part.

It is jarring to be told "you don't exist" -- especially by those who want to be one's ally.