alt Hacker NewsYou misunderstand me, I’m not proposing we get rid of JavaScript.
I am saying that allowing for JavaScript to be dynamically downloaded and executed after the page is ready was a mistake.
You can build your Google docs, your maps, and figmas. You don’t need JS to be sent after the page is ready to do so.
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stavros • 05/03/2025
How are you going to stop it, when you already are running JS? I can write a VM in JS that I can load, then I can load static assets after the page has loaded, and execute them in the VM. How would you block that?
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Wouldn't this make users pay for every possible feature they could ever use on a given site? For instance, in Google Maps I might use Street View 1% of the time, and the script for it is pretty bulky. In your ideal world, would I have to preload the Street View handling scripts whenever I loaded up Google Maps at all?