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by acqq 5734 days ago
I'm one of those who browse without JavaScript and Flash and for me that IS a better experience. Try it once and see how much better signal to noise ratio is. I also like the additional benefit of having much less chance to be attacked through the browser.

And I also use Opera, exactly because I can enable using the built in browser settings both JS and Flash only for a few sites where I need it (like youtube).

I have just checked again: I don't have JS turned on for HN. It just works.
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BCM43 5734 days ago
Really? It does not work with noscript. I get a blank page when I attempt to vote.
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acqq 5734 days ago
You're right. The vote is counted, so I consider that as "works." The result is certainly ugly, but I'd name that a "minor display issue" as I can hit "back."

Of course it would be nice if that "back" step wouldn't be needed.

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mike-cardwell 5734 days ago
Yes, that is very annoying. It should just send you back to the page you were already on and to the position on the page where the comment you clicked is.

You could probably also do some clever trick with checkboxes, the css3 :checked pseudo class, and background images to make it work without javascript and without page refreshes. Browser support isn't going to be great atm though.

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acqq 5734 days ago
I would expect that it can be reasonably easy fix (a few lines on the right places) to simply deliver some sane content as the result of the vote HTML query.

Shouldn't the referrer tag from the query be enough?

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