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by davewiner 3669 days ago
To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS.

It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.

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> To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS.

> It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.

I think the client exists: it's a web browser using forms. Not as nice as what we all expected we would have by now back in the 90s, but it works. A blog entry's just a title and some text. Throw in an input field for the title, and a textarea for some Markdown and baby you've got a blog!

You have to enable JavaScript (from fargo.io) to view posts (or at least to view the About page.)
The About page should NOT have required JS. That was a mistake. I'm going to fix it, but not tonight.

Here's an example of a blog post written in 1999.io.

http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html

You do NOT need JS on to read it, by design.

I feel like a lot of people are harshing on the fact that this is not like, I dunno, geocities or something, but I just want to express some appreciation that an effort is made for those of us who do not want to execute arbitrary code just to read a blog entry.

One note - on that page, it seems that while the content is there independent of Javascript, the navigation is loaded (from three different domains) with Javascript. I suspect there's a more graceful way to fallback there.