In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Bryan Hogan   wrote:
> What's with all those sites where every image is actually a chunk of
> javascript that goes off and fetches the image? What's wrong with a simple
> img tag?!?

Rendering images with JS as you scroll to them serves two purposes. One
benign, one not.

1. It makes the page in view to load before the content that is
   scrolled off the bottom. Other wise it could be more random what
   loads when. This allows you to start reading the page faster, and
   reduces the memory footprint, and bandwidth if you are not going to
   scroll at all.
2. It lets the page owner track how far you have scrolled, and how fast
   you did that scrolling.

> That's not strictly accurate. One of the few things I'd praise Facebook
> for is that they do provide a non-javascript version, and all those
> features still work. It's what I always use because it is SOOO much faster
> than the standard version.

They had nothing that worked with Lynx last time I tried interacting
with them; and that interaction was trying to get them to stop emailing
me.

> Sadly, many sites do not degrade so nicely with javascript off :-(

Indeed.

Elijah
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wants pages to work in lynx

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