Tyrion wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> >>> Getting down to basics: Running Linux on a 32-/64-bit RISC architecture >>> - Part 1 >>> GNU/Linux from eight miles high >>> >>> By Dominic Sweetman >>> Embedded.com >>> http://www.embedded.com/design/opensource/208404045 >> That site has a very nice feature. If you are stupid enough to have >> Javascript turned on, an ad assaults you. However, if you don't, it >> dumps you right at the content. >> >> Beautiful! What a great way to reward turning off Javascript without >> getting in people's face. >> >> -a >> >> > I have Javascript enabled and that link took me straight to the article. > Why exactly do you think that javascript is so evil? >
I assume he was referring to the ads that distract from the content (and increase load time). For me, the worst part is the dynamic effects. I don't find (a limited screen-percentage of) ads so bad by themselves so much as the distraction caused by animations or scrolling or flipping or other dynamic annoyances. Some people (me!!) seem to be more bothered by this than others -- I do believe there's a physiological component. My fervent wish is for a browser feature to disable _all_ dynamic effects until/unless I explicitly request them (preferably by individual off/on widget for each individual object). Some websites are painful to visit just on the basis of a huge ratio of ad to content, regardless of dynamic effects. Some (way too many) websites use javascript to perform unnecessary operations that actually interfere with timely or smooth loading, and broken javascript (or browser-incompatibility) which interferes with the content itself! One very bad, very annoying practice is when websites fail to function with javascript disabled -- this is especially common on forms which misbehave without javascript or without a different browser than the author tested with. A separate concern with javascript is security. No browser implementation seems to be able to realistically promise risk-free execution, so on general principles, one might prefer to disable javascript except possibly for whitelisted sites. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
