Links are not buttons (2013)

Re:Links are not buttons (2013) by cookiengineer on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:30PM (#26756444)

I'm not sure you are aware that everybody that activates JS just to see this type of content (which can be done in a static html only manner) will be heavily disappointed when they've loaded your page.

It's like waiting to load a WebGL demo of a damn teapot. Afterwards you have a negative impression, such as me now thinking of chadnauseam, that I now think has no effing clue about webdev if this person can't create two damn paragraphs without a JS framework.

If you throw a heavy JS framework on a website, make sure the content is at least as heavy. If the content is two paragraphs of text, why would you disappoint users so much when they visit from mobile?

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Re:Links are not buttons (2013) by frosted-flakes on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:08PM (#26758023)

Gatsby actually works extremely well for no-JS users. It is a static site generator, after all, that serves you raw HTML with a secondary JS payload. It's just that the author broke his website by setting the opacity to 0 on load so he could do a fade-in effect with JavaScript, even though there are much easier ways to do that in CSS. All the text is still there, just invisible.

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