It’s not a matter of if your users don’t have JavaScript—it’s a matter of when and how often.
The answer to that is around 1% of the time.
If you had an application bug which occurred 1% of the time, you’d fix it. No team I’ve come across would put up with that level of reliability.
The same goes for JavaScript. It’s not about people who turn it off. It’s about the nature of the web itself.
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S).
I really like this approach: using separate pages instead of in-page interactions. I remember Simon talking about how great this works, and that was a few years back, before we had view transitions.
I build separate, small HTML pages for each “interaction” I want, then I let CSS transitions take over and I get something that feels better than its JS counterpart for way less work.
I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn.
The paradigm shift that web development is entering hinges on the fact that while React was a key enabler of the Single-Page-App and Component era of the web, in practice it normally tends to result in extremely poor products. Built-in browser APIs are now much more capable than they were when React was first invented.
This looks interesting. On the hand, it’s yet another proprietary creation by one browser vendor (boo!), but on the other hand it’s a declarative API with no JavaScript required (yay!).
Even if this particular feature doesn’t work out, I hope that this is the start of a trend for declarative access to browser features.
Trying to understand a different mindset to mine.
Also, tipblogging.
Responses to my thoughts on why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
I’m trying to understand why developers would trust third-party code more than a native browser feature.
If the JavaScript API requires a user gesture, maybe it’s time for a new button type.