The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet

Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by 10165 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:51PM (#14404634)

"Javascript Required." "Oh snap! Your browser doesn't support Javascript."

I have seen so many of these Javascript-only "websites" posted on HN I am wondering is this coming from some web development template? How difficult is it to have a page with text for those not using Javascript? Something like

  <html class=nojs>
  <p>This website was designed for browsers that run Javascript.  Are you using one?  Here are some examples of browsers that work well with our website: browser1, browser2, etc.  Alternatively, a no-JS version of the website is available <a href=https://blockstack-site-api.herokuapp.com/v1/blog-rss>here</a>.</p>
  </html>

There are of course other ways to do this. The point is that it can be done and is not difficult.

For those not using or with Javascript disabled:

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core

And a blog

   curl -o 1.htm https://blockstack-site-api.herokuapp.com/v1/blog-rss
   tr -cd '\12\40-\176' < 1.htm > 2.htm
   xyz 2.htm

where xyz is some program that displays html or rss.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by bsilvereagle on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:50PM (#14405205)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by cavanasm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:06PM (#14404784)

There are a bunch of very popular web development frameworks where pretty much all the functionality comes from the javascript. Angular and React are some of the better known ones.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by majewsky on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:43PM (#14405148)

I can sorta kinda understand that you would use something like that for a rich web application, but this is literally a blog post. It doesn't get any more static than that.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by root_axis on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:12PM (#14405399)

one of react's differentiating qualities is that it can render the entire page on the back-end, so there's no reason for the page to fail if the user does not run javascript.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by giobox on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:55PM (#14406130)

Whilst this is often true, not all React code will render server side. You need to take care to make sure your React code stays isomorphic, which usually lasts right up to the point you discover some third party React component you reused would require significant rewriting to support server side rendering. That's how my personal projects usually end up anyway!

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by mnm1 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:59PM (#14406521)

It's not difficult at all, but is either overlooked or left out on purpose so you can't read the article without them tracking you. For sites that have active developers and cashflow, it's always the latter.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by astrobe_ on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:52AM (#14410411)

"The internet is broken. It has been for a while" is the first words of the article you cannot read because of Javascriptosis. Quite ironic.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by contingencies on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:16PM (#14420202)

Haha. Added this commentary to the https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup fortune database in the section 'randoms on change'.

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Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized... by bobbygoodlatte on Thursday May 25, 2017 @10:34PM (#14421674)

I'd argue Javascript has largely 'un-broken' the Web. It transformed it from a static, pageload-based medium to something far more dynamic.

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