I suppose that I am paranoid by nature, at least with respects to web technologies. Javascript for example is obviously a powerful, feature friendly way of creating dynamic content but the idea of client side scripting that is not under the user's control has always made me a little nervous (the vast majority of browser exploits rely on it for example). So my default browsing environment is with ads blocked and Javascript disabled.

More and more these days I am seeing artifacts of new school web designers either confusing or forgetting that client side is not under their control and that not everyone (or every thing such as the plethora of bots out there) sees the world through rosy Javascript coloured glasses. Take the NHL's web designers for a Javascript-less ride and we get this:

What's in the red circle? Let us take a look:

//values were inserted here in example

It is hard to tell whether someone was taking "copy and paste" too literally or whether a 3rd party is injecting content they should not be but none the less, it makes for an amusing and informative Google search.

The obvious lesson is do not forget to test your code with Javascript disabled because at the very least Google will.

topics: javascript, opinion, programming