libera #seamonkey

19 Jun 2023

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• 00:09
  franstam
  why cant they use use standard html???? i remember when i learnt it in school even my windows 95 browsers handle it properly
• 00:28
  tomman
  franstam: even worse: the site STILL looks like the same as it has been for the last... 15 years?
• 00:29
  tomman
  but for whatever reason it now relies on a metric pile of JavaScript, and it looks like someone just updated their framenotworks™ and are Testing in Production®
• 00:30
  tomman
  also... ugh, image lazy loading has been took up there to the extreme
• 00:30
  tomman
  does JavaScript break or is it disabled? Then you get NO IMAGES, simple as that!
• 00:33
  franstam
  i dunno, ietf and those linux man pages work perfectly fine and are simple webpages
• 00:34
  franstam
  sometimes those javascript are in place to prevent people from scraping and downloading all their images
• 00:39
  tomman
  What I mean is: why messing with the backend if the site is gonna look the same? Just leave the old code in place, it works!
• 00:39
  tomman
  ...and this brings me back to cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software
• 01:12
  franstam
  tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/16/17…ng-back-replaceable-phone-batteries
• 04:48
  njsg
  js-based lazy loading has struck me as a problem possibly being addressed on the wrong side
• 04:48
  njsg
  "why messing with the backend if the site is gonna look the same?" <-- I'm guessing it could be SEO for google, too
• 04:49
  njsg
  although I'm not really aware of the scoring they do lately
• 07:13
  Jindam
  Is it possible to compile seamonkey for armv7l?
• 08:20
  GrannyGoose
  No