Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off

Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by reaperducer on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:41AM (#17021745)

I built a website for a mid-sized health care company, and the primary goal was to communicate with as many people using as many devices as possible, not to be flashy.

With that mandate, the site (about 300 pages) ended up almost completely js-free. I think there was only one page that had js, and that was for a calculating widget.

js is great for certain things, but certainly not necessary for all the things it's used for.

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Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by sireat on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:05PM (#17025100)

Admirable, what type of stack did you use for the back-end?

I remember there was a movement to be completely JS free in late 90s/early 2000s.

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Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by reaperducer on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @10:58AM (#17030319)

Nothing fancy. Just a plain LAMP stack. IDE was Coda2. I can't tell you about server stuff, though; that's handled by a different department.

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Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by dredmorbius on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:10PM (#17022020)

Sounds like a potentially sane organisation. Care to mention them?.

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Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by reaperducer on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:16PM (#17022059)

Not really. I'm still "the new guy" and I'm not sure how they'd feel about me outing it. Though the consultants keep talking about submitting the site for some kind of award. So maybe you'll see it eventually.

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Re:Using the Web for a Day with JavaScript Turned Off by dredmorbius on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @12:57PM (#17022479)

Understood, thanks.

Maybe throw this in the pot: There are those of us who care about such things, and honest signalling counts for something.

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