Or at all since the content is entirely injected via JS with no fallback (and the JS uses class fields in case you thought an old browser might be able to load it).
You don’t have to “do this without JS” but you could have a fallback to tell JS-less users about it. As is they get a blank page and no idea what’s happening.
Been wondering about this, how many people are using old browsers? caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes. The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why? What kind of unusual visitors would I be missing out on?
Anecdote: I know someone who has some antiquated games that he couldn't get working in anything other than a real install of Windows XP. The game has a forum, so he frequently uses IE8 installed on the computer to access it.
I guess there are lots of tiny edge cases that look like that.
It's true that people with JavaScript disabled won't be able to run any JavaScript, but once they turn it on it should have relatively good feature support -- I suspect the sort of people who know how to disable JavaScript aren't using software more than 5 years out of date.
They are used to it? The number of users who have JS disabled is already small. The number of those users who lack the technical expertise to enable it as needed (and understand when that is necessary — e.g. with a blank or broken page) is probably many, many times smaller.
And yet most site designers which require javascript turn out to be thoughtful enough to make a note of it rather than leave a completely empty page.
And public sites which absolutely require javascript to do anything turn out to be quite rare.
So there’s no reason to be used to it. “Some buttons don’t work”, yes I do expect i need to allow some JS. “Nothing shows up at all” is usually a network issue.
The noscript tag is something the page would need to use, and does not. Again, page is completely empty (or was, author commented that they fixed it, very nice)
> caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes.
Class fields are later addition to classes. And completely unnecessary here, it looks. The class fields are just duplicates of the instance fields, which are always filled.
> The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why?
Unsupported device which can not have recent updates for one reason or an other?
Also, since this was mostly a DNS-focused proof of concept, I don't particularly care about that. Not in this case, at least.