alt Hacker NewsI really feel like this genre of comment should fall under this "don't" from the HN guidelines:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
You're willingly disabling a part of web atandards.
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> You're willingly disabling a part of web atandards.
HN seems like the perfect place to talk about shitty web standards, shitty uses/implementations of them, and the negative impacts they're having on users in the wild. Solutions and workarounds should be welcome too.
There are lots of shitty things that are more common than they should be in this world, but those are the things we should be talking about and calling out when we see them. What good would it ever do anyone to just shut up about them?
The web really doesn't, and shouldn't, depend on these things. I use a JavaScript whitelisting tool, so that I can allow JavaScript on pages where it's merited, when the trust for that functionality has been earned. Nowadays it's used for things that have been possible in plain HTML for decades. In this case, text has been added to HTML that causes otherwise visible text not to display, presumably so that it can fade in or do some slide-show effect or who knows what else. My annoyance with these things is hardly "tangential"; it smacks me in the face multiple times a day.