"Paul" <
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| Just for the record, Github has an "artifically high" browser requirement.
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| This means the interface won't work at all, in something like FF52
| or some old version. It's all bomb-squadded, to only work if they
| can store their little cookies or whatever. They think this is going
| to make me use MSEdge. It's not. Surprise!
|
Yes. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Completely broken
without script. Broken on XP. Yesterday I was wanting to get
NetGuard for Android. I went around in circles on Android trying to
get an APK link. I never did figure out how I found it. On XP I
wanted to get the FAQ -- simple text -- but as you noted, it's
embedded in script. Even the FAQ! I ended up copying and parsing
the blurb from source code. Crazy stuff. Github looks likes it was
designed by an insufferable geek who hasn't had his coffee yet,
then touched up by Bill Gates when he has insomnia, furious that
people are downloading code for free. I think Billy wants to at least
make sure that we can't get anything compiled without a fight. :)
Embedding content in script is becoming more common. The only
possible reason I can see is to force people to use script. The trick
of putting an opaque DIV on top of content is also becoming more
common. In some ways it's nostalgic. Remember the old days when
teenagers would do their Flash masterpieces, and the page would
announce "Best viewed with IE 4.12345.678"?
The new commercial websites are similar. You're not supposed
to be able to read them. You're supposed to see ads. (The content
may be just auto-generated anyway.)
As most probably know, MS bought GitHub. MS pages are also
widely broken. Very few are accessible anymore without enabling
script. It's not HTML. It's a javascript software program that will
generate a webpage when you run it. I think it's about time that
we have a movement to return to HTML and non-obfuscation.
I've also noticed that archive.org is messed up. It used to work
well. Now, if I find a page through search I can get file links. But
I haven't got the search to work for a long time now.
MS have always been nasty that way. I remember once,
years ago, they had a site for something for programmers. I don't
remember now what it was, but it came up in discussions in the
VB newsgroup. It turned out that the source code was specifically
written to block anything but IE. And of course, there was at least
one lapdog MVP to say that was impossible and was just anti-MS
propaganda. (We had some very good VB MVPs, but also a couple
of MS attack dogs.)
Now Google seems to be doing similar tricks with Chrome and has a
monopoly similar to IE in the 90s. I never use anything but Mozilla-
related browsers, but I have seen complaints about things not working
except in Chrome.
If it doesn't work for me in FF then I just don't go there. Recently
I told my dentist that their page won't work for me. It's a JS/JSON monstrosity. To my delight they now send me a simple, no-nonsense
email! To confirm my appt 4 times in 3 weeks I need only reply to
the email.
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