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User choice and progressive enhancement - Seirdy
Many users who need a significant degree of privacy will also be excluded, as JavaScript is a major fingerprinting vector. Users of the Tor Browser are
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Many users who need a significant degree of privacy will also be excluded, as JavaScript is a major fingerprinting vector. Users of the Tor Browser are encouraged to stick to the “Safest” security level. That security level disables dangerous features such as: Just-in-time compilation JavaScript SVG MathML Graphite font rendering automatic media playback Even if it were purely a choice in user hands, I’d still feel inclined to respect it. Of course, accommodating needs should come before accommodation of wants; that doesn’t mean we should ignore the latter. Personally, I’d rather treat any features that disadvantage a marginalized group as a last-resort. I prefer selectively using as it was intended-as a disclosure widget-and would rather come up with other creative alternatives to accordion patterns. Only when there’s no other option would I try a progressively-enhanced JS-enabled option. I’m actually a little ambivalent about since I try to support alternative browser engines (beyond Blink, Gecko, and WebKit). Out of all the independent engines I’ve tried , the only one that supports seems to be Servo. JavaScript, CSS, and-where sensible-images are optional enhancements to pages. For “apps”, progressive enhancement still applies: something informative (e.g. a skeleton with an error message explaining why JS is required) should be shown and overridden with JS.