Tuesday, December 8, 2015

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and it Was Glorious

As you can imagine, I ran into some problems. Netflix wouldn’t work. Neither would YouTube, at least not without turning on Adobe Flash, which would kind of defeat the point of turning off JavaScript. And of course you can forget using Google Docs without JavaScript.

But the most surprising thing is that most things just worked. And in many cases, worked better. Pages loaded nearly instantly, my laptop battery lasted longer, and I could browse the web with fewer distractions.

A JS-free world is out of the question, but it does spark an interesting conversation about our tools-first approach to developing sites and dovetails nicely with our recent post on building offline sites with ServiceWorker.

Martin Wolf's take was pretty funny:

His experience without Javascript was so glorious that he turned it back on after one week.

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Microsoft to Open Source A Key Piece of Its Web Browser

Microsoft to Open Source A Key Piece of Its Web Browser

Microsoft is open sourcing its Edge browser's JavaScript engine as the company continues is march toward a more open future.

The post Microsoft to Open Source A Key Piece of Its Web Browser appeared first on WIRED.











Friday, December 4, 2015

November Jobs Report: Solid Growth

Employers added 211,000 jobs to payrolls last month, setting the stage for a Federal Reserve interest rate increase later this month.

Thursday, December 3, 2015