A rant against jquery and the blogs that use them
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Since I am ranting today: I really wish Javascript based images and ads would load the style element of their blocks first! I hate reading blogs on my mobile phone because some idiot thinks that deciding images and sizes and link locations is best done after the page load in the DOM instead of good old fashioned HTML. Heck, even Shopify the shopping cart provider I signed up for does it with many things, sigh.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
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Since I am ranting today: I really wish Javascript based images and ads would load the style element of their blocks first! I hate reading blogs on my mobile phone because some idiot thinks that deciding images and sizes and link locations is best done after the page load in the DOM instead of good old fashioned HTML. Heck, even Shopify the shopping cart provider I signed up for does it with many things, sigh.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
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Well, stop reading blogs on your phone then. Get a proper computer.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Your response to his rant is lacking in thought IMHO. If we all use a different device then the solution will be to keep our minds in the past. Just as re-writing the source could be performed at the server level to accommodate these nuances, there is no reason that the jQuery library (et al) cannot properly detect and change aspects which would hinder the user experience such as touch vs click inter alia. A small portion of code would be able to test element geometry and subtract for features which would not add to the experience unless specifically wanted by the developer of the site just as browser detection was performed in the past. Until the content is called to be rendered on the device there is really no expectation of it and thus we have to change the way we develop out sites so that the above concepts can be fluidly applied to the rendering environment and provide for the experience we desire on all platforms. :cool:
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Since I am ranting today: I really wish Javascript based images and ads would load the style element of their blocks first! I hate reading blogs on my mobile phone because some idiot thinks that deciding images and sizes and link locations is best done after the page load in the DOM instead of good old fashioned HTML. Heck, even Shopify the shopping cart provider I signed up for does it with many things, sigh.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
I hate people who use new high tech cool stuff when they don't need to, and it makes the experience worse than if they'd just used the simple technology that's already there. Dynamically loaded content, particularly done in an onLoad without the right layout settings applied in static markup so it jumps around, is particularly annoying.