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Replacing JS with just HTML
For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web. If you wanted to do something that couldn't be done with just HTML and CSS, you could usually find a way to do it with JS.
And that is great! JS has helped push user experiences forward, and honestly helped push HTML and CSS forward!
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Replacing JS with just HTML - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: (@volpeon)
> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you ne...

JSProtect: A Scalable Obfuscation Framework for Mini-Games in WeChat
Zhihao Li, Chaozheng Wang, Zongjie Li, Xinyong Peng, Zelin Su, Qun Xia, Haochuan Lu, Ting Xiong, Man Ho Lam, Shuzheng Gao, Yuchong Xie, Cuiyun Gao, Shuai Wang, Yuetang Deng, Huafeng Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24498

JSProtect: A Scalable Obfuscation Framework for Mini-Games in WeChat
The WeChat mini-game ecosystem faces rampant intellectual property theft to other platforms via secondary development, yet existing JavaScript obfuscation tools are ill-equipped for large-scale applications, suffering from prohibitive processing times, severe runtime performance degradation, and unsustainable code size inflation. This paper introduces JSProtect, a high-throughput parallelized obfuscation framework designed to overcome these fundamental limitations. At the core of our framework …

Caught a bug over the holidays so I’m mostly resting, feeling sorry for myself, and taking the time to at least carry out some mindless housekeeping tasks (updating dependencies, etc.) on some of my Node modules.
Released updates to the following packages yesterday:
Tape-based Node.js testing:
• Tap monkey (https://

tap-monkey
A tap formatter that’s also a monkey.

LOL
Color me unsurprised.
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/115459508378263706

There's a media query for JS enabled/disabled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/scripting

scripting - CSS | MDN
The scripting CSS media feature can be used to test whether scripting (such as JavaScript) is available.

from my link log —
easrng/schema: derive JSON schema from TypeScript type using LSP autocomplete.
https://github.com/easrng/schema
saved 2025-12-28 https://

GitHub - easrng/schema: Tiny, types-first schema validation for TypeScript.
Tiny, types-first schema validation for TypeScript. - easrng/schema

»Importing vs fetching JSON:
This year, JSON module imports became baseline 'newly available', meaning they're implemented across browser engines.«
— by @…
Although I don't know for what and in what context to use in the browser, but it's good that I now know about this.
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Importing vs fetching JSON
They behave differently, so make sure you pick the right one.

KAPLAY — The fun and open source game library for HTML5 Games.
KAPLAY.js, HTML5 Game library for JavaScript and TypeScript. Free & Open Source.
🦕 https://kaplayjs.com
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KAPLAY.js, HTML5 Game library for JavaScript and TypeScript. Free & Open Source.
KAPLAY.js is a JavaScript and TypeScript HTML5 game engine library that makes it easy and fun to create games. Is the successor of Kaboom.js.

»Just use HTML — JavaScript is…
- Slower to load
- Slower to run
- More prone to breaking
- Harder to read and reason about
- Doesn’t actually look like the final output«
Don't use JavaScript for the design, because CSS as well as SVG images can create a lot of animation and the ability to create a dynamic web interface.
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Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that canno…