April 24 Is JS Naked Day
Published on Apr 21, 2024, filed under development, javascript. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)
This is one of 180 articles that you can also read in an ebook: On Web Development II.
Every year on April 9 we, a part of our field, do without CSS; from this year on, on April 24, there’s an opportunity to temporarily swear off JavaScript.
Both events celebrate important web development concepts (graceful degradation/progressive enhancement) and, ultimately, maintainability (separation of concerns).
(I’m not convinced of the normative “should” in “should work without JavaScript,” but I’m joining the inaugural edition.)
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I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead and manager at various companies (e.g., Google); I’m an active web and tool developer (code optimization, digital defense), a contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and a book author (O’Reilly, Frontend Dogma). Stay in touch.