Please excuse this off-topic comment, but the webpage is severely dysfunctional. Unless JavaScript is enabled in the browser, the page will just display a loading screen. All the content is right there in the HTML and it would be perfectly readable if it wasn't deliberately obscured by the "loading" screen.[1] I'm sure the idea is that the page will load perfectly all at once, there won't be flashes of unstyled text and so on, but for me it just means that the real content won't load at all. Curiously, mobile users (or other users with small screens) are spared the loading page.[2] That's nice for mobile users, I guess, but as a desktop user it's just salt in the wound. If the plain page is good enough for mobile users, why isn't it good enough for me?
Please, web developers, stop doing this. It's not just the minority of people who browse with JavaScript disabled who are bothered by this, think of all the people on slow Internet connections who have to wait for your megabyte+ JavaScript program to download and execute before they can read the content of the 50 KB HTML page.
I understand that it is not feasible to accommodate no-JS browsers for Single Page Applications because JavaScript is essential to their functionality, but this page is not an application and JS is obviously not essential to it. Use JavaScript to enhance webpages, not degrade them.
- [1] Yes, Reader View in Firefox (and similar) are able to render the page properly. It's a wonderful utility, but I shouldn't have to strip away your broken web design to read your content.
- [2] https://streamable.com/b390d (no JS mirror: https://cgt.name/files/fortheloveofgod.ogv)
Please, web developers, stop doing this. It's not just the minority of people who browse with JavaScript disabled who are bothered by this, think of all the people on slow Internet connections who have to wait for your megabyte+ JavaScript program to download and execute before they can read the content of the 50 KB HTML page.
I understand that it is not feasible to accommodate no-JS browsers for Single Page Applications because JavaScript is essential to their functionality, but this page is not an application and JS is obviously not essential to it. Use JavaScript to enhance webpages, not degrade them.
- [1] Yes, Reader View in Firefox (and similar) are able to render the page properly. It's a wonderful utility, but I shouldn't have to strip away your broken web design to read your content.
- [2] https://streamable.com/b390d (no JS mirror: https://cgt.name/files/fortheloveofgod.ogv)