Good stuff. You may have noticed I've recently changed the banners on the left to be pure JS (and easily picked up by adblock). This is by design. Otherwise, my fatwa against overweight JS still stands (embedding a youtube clip causes my page load size to
at least quadruple, though it usually stays under 3s on
DSL because my crap is so small, even with images).
Needless to say, there was
some good commentary over at HN. Best quote:
In the past couple years, however, I have noticed a new phenomenon. Remarkably - madly, in my view - there are webpages, webpages that should be simple, webpages by all appearances that consist of nothing more than a photo (maybe more than one), a byline, and a few hundred words of text, that require Javascript to load. As in, you will get a a blank page or an error message if you don't have their scripts enabled.
I don't understand it. I don't want to understand it. I just want it to stop.
