On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:05:33AM -0500, James R Miller wrote: > (I also don’t understand the knee jerk response away from > cookies / JavaScript).
Mine isn't a knee-jerk reaction. It's worse: it's well thought-out. Discussing that in detail would be far off-topic for this list, though. > Those are just parts of the modern web... Cookies for state and persistent > login and JavaScript for making the web page interactive. There are many things which are "parts of modern X", for many values of X, which I dislike. I tend to avoid them. > Are you saying you’d want some sort of REST api instead and the website would > just be a view into that? All well and fine (as long as it is documented). But falling back to Plain Old HTML just works too. Cheers -- t
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