I love seeing things like this. It used to be that you had to constuct a small wall of divs wrapping the one thing you wanted to target and then go on a JavaScript binge to get it to behave the way you wanted.
I think JavaScript has incredible uses but for a while it was getting abused which left a lot of front-end devs considering CSS for just layout, static designs, and typography. It wasn't until some of the browser devs started to take all the stuff in CSS that JavaScript was manipulating and make it easier to deal with in CSS that we started to see stuff like this.
Less javascript on websites, makes me more happy. So if anything can be done by dumping JS.... great.
Javascript is the most depraving abomination in the history or the web. Not only do i have to download MB's of the same jquery bloat multiple times in a single browsing session, most of the time it isn't even used. OR it's used to draw a drop down box.
I miss the days of optimization. Just over a decade ago, i could load most webpages instantly on a 56k connection (pictures could be slow, depending on format)..... but today i feel it takes longer to load a page even while noscript and rule filters are activated. You can be sat at a desk with an 8 core desktop pc, and you have to impatiently wait while your browser stops responding (on all OS from linux to windows) because the web "designer" decided it was a good idea to reference the same jquery bloat a thousand times in a single header.
Yes i am ranting. JS is the new flash, except flash hasn't even died yet. Kill it with fire. More of these CSS alternatives!
Those sites use temares that were never reduced down from the heavily laden demo version of the template. Which means crap loads of unused js is still in them.
Sometimes, it's almost impossible to get to the raw form of the template without redoing them on your own ... Ugh!
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2 u/captbrogers 28 Dec 2015 03:17
I love seeing things like this. It used to be that you had to constuct a small wall of divs wrapping the one thing you wanted to target and then go on a JavaScript binge to get it to behave the way you wanted.
I think JavaScript has incredible uses but for a while it was getting abused which left a lot of front-end devs considering CSS for just layout, static designs, and typography. It wasn't until some of the browser devs started to take all the stuff in CSS that JavaScript was manipulating and make it easier to deal with in CSS that we started to see stuff like this.
2 u/unixfreak 28 Dec 2015 16:33
Less javascript on websites, makes me more happy. So if anything can be done by dumping JS.... great. Javascript is the most depraving abomination in the history or the web. Not only do i have to download MB's of the same jquery bloat multiple times in a single browsing session, most of the time it isn't even used. OR it's used to draw a drop down box.
I miss the days of optimization. Just over a decade ago, i could load most webpages instantly on a 56k connection (pictures could be slow, depending on format)..... but today i feel it takes longer to load a page even while noscript and rule filters are activated. You can be sat at a desk with an 8 core desktop pc, and you have to impatiently wait while your browser stops responding (on all OS from linux to windows) because the web "designer" decided it was a good idea to reference the same jquery bloat a thousand times in a single header.
Yes i am ranting. JS is the new flash, except flash hasn't even died yet. Kill it with fire. More of these CSS alternatives!
0 u/WhiteRonin 30 Dec 2015 20:38
Sometimes, it's almost impossible to get to the raw form of the template without redoing them on your own ... Ugh!
1 u/WhiteRonin 28 Dec 2015 03:44
Seen most of these ...
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