[throwaway_pdp09]

This would be interesting if I could read it. Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS?

I have read several IT books recently and they aren't good. Basic stuff like visibility of diagrams, presenting advanced subject matter but also supposedly in a way that will teach you programming, or having pages of code to illustrate something trivial.

[dorkwood]

Someone needs to make a Hacker News bingo card. "Doesn't work with JS disabled" would definitely be on there.

[throwaway_pdp09]

Along with "you need JS for the modern web"

[clarry]

"it's just text and images"

[aqui_c]

I'm working on that. I just used a stock template for the website.

[carapace]

Cheers! Much appreciated. :-)

[dkersten]

The low contrast text is also really hard to read.

[JadeNB]

> Would it be possible to display text without enabling JS?

No, because then how would it set up pullquotes like "If you don't set a baseline somewhere, you risk starting a book that grows backward" that you can tweet at the push of a button? (Is that really a thing? I guess it must be somewhere, but it's new to me on a (I guess) programmer's blog.)

[chrisa]

You can't actually send a tweet at the push of a button (unless you're connected with twitter oauth with the right permissions), but what you can do (and that button does) is opens the tweet composer pre-filled with the quote, ready for you to then just hit "Tweet"

[qznc]

I used to do that on my blog. Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/team_building.html

Stopped doing it as I got negative feedback about it being annoying. I never tracked how many tweets I get out of it though. So if you aim for popularity (unlike me) it might still be worth it.

It was one of the big reasons I used RestructuredText as markup language for my static website generator. It is extensible enough to make these tweet-blocks with just:

    .. tweetable :: Psychological Safety is THE core factor for Great Teams says Google

[aqui_c]

They are just links to Twitter, no JS involved on those fragments.

[carapace]

Yeah, I'm getting pretty sick of sites that want to run JS to show static content.