On 24 Aug 2020 at 13:53, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote: > Good on ya! After seeing all of the useless crap that HTML editors add to a > webpage, I also manually write my HTML code.
I'm with you on that one! Being a little paranoid, I run with Javascript off unless I really trust the website (and there aren't many of those). The plus of this is that all those pages with dozens of trackers and ad scripts load a LOT faster. The minus is that sometimes Bruce's EV news links don't work for me. I get partial or no text, missing or useless images, images that spill off the page, images that overlay text, links that don't work, and sometimes a totally blank page. It sucks, but since probably 2/3 of the EV news pages copy and paste from each other, I can usually find the same information somewhere else. :-) As much as I despise them, I can kind of understand the trackers and ads, but I just don't get why a simple news site needs all the other junk. Why does almost every link have to be a Javascript function? And what's the deal with these tiny 20x20 (or whatever) images scaled up to page size so they're just a blur? What's wrong with a clickable link on a thumbnail? That worked great for, what, 15 years of the web? My browser still has a back button. If you know what you're doing with web coding, it doesn't take that much more time to make a page that degrades gracefully with older browsers and without Javascript. I don't see what the problem is here. I'm not saying there's a connection, but I swear, as factory EVs' utility has increased, the usability of the websites about them has fallen off at roughly the same rate. At any rate, thanks Robert, for your clear, no-nonsense 100% information pages. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled. -- Mark Twain = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
