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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by onychomys on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:02PM (#28460839)
> For 99.999% of web browsing use-cases, HTML/CSS is all that's needed.

Many people use the web to buy things. Button presses, logins, pizza tracking monitors, they all use JS.

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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by witheld on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:20PM (#28461079)
None of those require JS at all, except the pizza monitor.
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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by onychomys on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#28461188)
How can you send information to your backend server without JS?
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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by jansommer on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:42PM (#28461367)
Back in the days (I'm 33 and thus quite old in web years) we would use forms
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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by stevage on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:09PM (#28463664)
Submit buttons or links. Then the whole page reloads.

There might be tricks using CSS and images too.

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Re:Deploy a website on imgur.com by jzebedee on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:47PM (#28462106)
This is like a technical invocation of Poe's law.
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