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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by Blahah on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:09AM (#14410093)
It's possible to make arbitrarily sophisticated websites without serving any HTML except a script tag. The browser shows you HTML to represent the DOM, but it doesn't mean sites are serving any significant amount of it. (most still are though - I was just pointing out that it's possible to avoid it almost completely)
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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by chris__butters on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:18AM (#14410157)
It's worth noting this is tailored towards web applications where as HTML can be used by any website - marketing, brand experience or otherwise including web app.
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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by SomeStupidPoint on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:05AM (#14410516)
Jokes on them -- I have JS turned off on my phone except a few websites. I'm not paying outrageous mobile bandwidth fees for bloated websites and ads that cost me more in bandwidth than they make.

So for 90% of my browsing, I'll click on their page, see nothing, and move on with my day.

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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by chris__butters on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:16AM (#14410600)
JS is used for a lot more than just adverts, just install an adblocker on your phone
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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by SomeStupidPoint on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:45AM (#14410861)
Many websites use JS that is slow and jumpy -- bloated -- on a phone, especially a cheaper one like I use.

Also, I like to use Chrome on my phone, so installing an adblocker is a lot of work for little benefit. It would slow down the already laggy rendering and require I either use a different browser or let an app intercept network traffic.

I'm perfectly happy not using JS (or for that matter, media) on my phone.

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Re:Mavo: An HTML-based language for creating many kinds of w... by talmand on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:58PM (#14413411)
Sure, you can do that. Serve a JS file that happens to create the HTML on the fly that someone had to code beforehand. Serving just a JS file that outputs HTML is still using markup.
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