Dillo is so awesome! I urge you to apt-get install dillo
The forgotten feeling when computers responded immediately.
I guess I'll be using it for some web.
The forgotten feeling when computers responded immediately.
I guess I'll be using it for some web.
This makes me feed sorry for the people dealing with the XUI/JS/CSS cesspit of Firefox plugins.
Supporting other embedded languages might be nice, but of course, unless all the major browsers also support the same, sites would have to provide an alternative in javascript for everybody else.
Not supporting javascript at all when it's integrated so deeply into the web, when you will doubtless be able to simply turn it off if you want, seems unreasonable.
For better or worse, the web is becoming a platform for distributing javascript binaries which execute in the browser. Unlike most other platforms, however, at least you can turn it off or view the source or block parts of it if you like.
However, you can't design a browser around an expectation of what the web should be like.
And anyway, it could be worse. If there were no javascript we would all be complaining about the dominance of VBScript in the browser.
shudder
JS itself isn't bad, it's the misuse which is bad. Subtle JS use should add _extra_ functionality, not _be_ the functionality.
It's funny, I was just having a conversation about JS in freenode #python the other day and we were complaining/discussing the same thing.
The worst is when my browser freezes because of some JS that's too over the top.
Modern browsers are fucking huge. Obviously they do very much more than browsers used to, but most of the time I really am just reading text and I don't want a bad designer's idea of novel UI to get in the way.
Sadly it seems like hundreds of years of design iteration for the printed word are being weakened.
Dillo looks to be a more interesting way to test websites' graceful fallbacks than hacking up Chrome or Firefox's settings.