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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

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1037 points 8bitben | 1 comments | 09 Sep 16 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ejcx ◴[09 Sep 16 16:16 UTC] No.12463585[source]▶
Just wanted to give the author a shoutout for being awesome. This article is published with an AMP version[0] too, which is pretty unusual for smaller blogging sites.

AMP articles are so much easier on my eyes (and the author can't include their own javascript on an AMP page, so there is less bloat). I wish all bloggers started to publish AMP pages.

[0] - http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbo...

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tqkxzugoaupvwqr ◴[09 Sep 16 16:47 UTC] No.12463909[source]▶
AMP is not the solution. Anyone willing to use AMP to reduce bloat could also just not add bloat to HTML pages in the first place. And, using AMP itself adds bloat[1]. I couldn’t even read the author’s AMP version without enabling JavaScript.

[1] https://www.ampproject.org/docs/get_started/create/basic_mar...

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pvdebbe ◴[09 Sep 16 16:53 UTC] No.12463977[source]▶
I can read all mentioned pages with NoScript enabled. But fully agreed that static pages such as blogs shouldn't require JS to show the primary content.
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pyre ◴[09 Sep 16 16:59 UTC] No.12464026[source]▶
That depends. What about blog posts that have inline JS demos?
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1. Cheezmeister ◴[09 Sep 16 20:56 UTC] No.12465979{4}[source]▶
Echoing others, as blog posts go, that's the exception and not the rule. Inline demos are furthermore not "primary content" but supplementary material.