JavaScript Dependency Debate

Commenters debate the necessity of JavaScript in a web feature or demo, criticizing misleading claims of pure HTML, third-party scripts, and advocating for native browser implementations without JS.

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Sample Comments

mnw21cam Mar 28, 2023 View on HN

Must be some Javascript you're allowing the page to run, because it works fine for me.

serhat Oct 4, 2016 View on HN

JS should have stayed where it was, in the browser ;D

rattray Jan 29, 2018 View on HN

@dang, can the title be modified to include the programming language/environment? (browser-only JS)

flatline3 Jul 20, 2012 View on HN

In that case, it's no longer standard or portable HTML/JS, no?

kyrra Aug 15, 2012 View on HN

That won't work for pure javascript sites like Twitter.

shobith Jun 21, 2020 View on HN

It seems to be available in browser, see script.js it's not minified.

tonetheman Jan 4, 2020 View on HN

wtf ... put some copy somewhere on the page to say what this is... someone's javascript homework?

it's implemented in js because that's what's available, but there's no reason this functionality couldn't be folded into HTML itself and then implemented in browsers without requiring js

catfishx Feb 3, 2022 View on HN

But JS is still required to for this to work, the title is a bit misleading

lloydjatkinson Dec 14, 2016 View on HN

back in the day you just did script src... none of this bullshit