How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites

Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by eadmund on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:59AM (#17826175)

The Internet works just fine without JavaScript: DNS, FTP, SSH, SMTP, NNTP — none of them have ever required JavaScript. Indeed, HTTP works just fine without JavaScript. HTTP pages perform better without it.

Granted, many broken and ill-programmed HTTP pages aren't useful without JavaScript. That's no an indication of how useful it is, but rather an indication of how poorly-skilled those webmasters are.

Then there are web apps; they indeed don't work properly without JavaScript. Fortunately, there just aren't that many important web apps. To be honest, I can't think of one web app that I regularly use, other than Google Meet.

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by EdwardDiego on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:00AM (#17826465)

Your distinction between web pages and web apps is entirely arbitrary. Many web pages use JS in such a way that interacting with them without JS is a lesser, if not broken, experience.

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Re:How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites by SquareWheel on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:21AM (#17826605)

Example: Is reddit a webpage or a web app? Correct - it's both.

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