20221024-overuse_of_js.txt
So I'm looking into applying to new jobs. It should be simple, right?
I mean this used to be done with paper and a writing utensil. It
doesn't require Javascript.
Except it does.
Why? Why in the world is JS so necessary on every little thing? You
can't upload a resume without JS? Baloney. Even parsing it shouldn't
require JS. It's a back end thing, and node.js and other server-side
JS shouldn't be a thing, either. It's so cheap because companies can't
be bothered to have any computing on the server side.
I may have written about Invidious before. I'm actually sure I have.
But even something as JS-dependent as Youtube can be run without JS...
at least for viewers and not creators.
The absolute worst offenders, in my experience, are Big G and food
ordering sites, like pizza places. Most sites will simply load an
empty page or worse, just show a spinning loader image when it's just
another false positive: everything has loaded, but it requires JS. At
least most* sites seem to have the decency to have a noscript
disclaimer.
Speaking of pizza sites, I was trying to order from Little Caesar's.
They're the cheapest pizza in town. I don't want to create an account
just to order a $5 pizza. No. So I call. The phone rings. And rings.
And rings. Nobody answers. I call back just to make sure I'm calling
the right number. Yep. Guess what? Nobody answers the phone. Other
reviews online say they don't take orders over the phone. Why? Why
would you cut that off? Why do you even have a local phone number if
you're not going to let people order by phone? Not everyone needs or
wants a Little Caesar's Pizza account. In fact, I'm pretty sure 99% of
people don't.
It's just frustrating. If there were a decent TUI browser that had JS
support, I *might* use it. And no, I'm not using Firefox or that weird
TUI browser that uses the FF engine to render JS on console.
