2022-04-03

Re: Everything Breaks

#software

ew0k writes:

Pretty much every site that isn't a personal blog refuses to have even basic functionality without JS [JavaScript].

gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-04-02-everything-breaks-experiencing-the-web-without-javascript.gmi

local copy

Yupp. I'm kind of used to this because I have resorted to use TOR browser almost exclusively since many years. It's an interesting kind of sports to see, how many of the domains I have to allow, of those which are listed in the NoScript box.

So I thought, why not start a list of websites, which actually do work without JavaScript enabled?

• midnight.pub --- a nice no frills site to occasionally hang out
• sourcehut.org and related sites like git.sr.ht --- imho this is the killer feature: "works without JavaScript" :-)
• solar.lowtechmagazine.com --- a treasure trove of long forgotten technology
• www.notechmagazine.com --- their sister site
• dict.tu-chemnitz.de --- a dictionary DE -- EN, ES, PT
• www.wikipedia.org --- works to some extent

My banks webpage did work without JavaScript and (more importantly) over TOR, but they switched systems a while back, and very unfortunately, this feature disappeared. Sniff. And yes, I informed them, that I notice a severe lack of nerd appeal on the current website.

Have fun!

~ew

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https://midnight.pub/

https://sourcehut.org/

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

https://www.notechmagazine.com/

https://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

https://www.wikipedia.org/

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