That is really weird. Technically the content is there all along (so it's not loaded in by JavaScript) but you still have to have JavaScript enabled for it to render. Who designed that!?
Edit: hahaha what. It appears the content is laid out with JavaScript. So basically they're using JavaScript as a more dynamic CSS. Let that sink in. They're using JavaScript as CSS.
It sorta-kinda makes sense for the fancy stream of comments but still... why is it a requirement!?
Very funny. They have a div #main with visibility:hidden. Removing that rule from dev tools displays the full page without enabling JS. The comments block is a solved problem with CSS. Basically any grid layout toolkit does that as their very first demo.
Yeah, if you are going to do that just for a fade-in transition at least set it to hidden with an inline script block then someone with script turned off they get the content. You block rendering until everything is downloaded, but then so does your needless transition.
If you are worried about it breaking in some browsers because you are modifying a tag that has not yet had its content completed so isn't accessible in the DOM yet, or because you use a DOM manipulation library that hasn't loaded yet due to lazy loading, have the script add an extra wrapper instead of modifying the existing tag [i.e. <script>document.write('<div id="iamanidiot" style="display:hidden">';</script>) directly after <body> and <script>document.write('</div>';</script> before </body>]. Or, of course, just don't...
> Or that they have kept with the times and understand the notion of opportunity cost.
That's not keeping up with times, that's poisoning the well because others do it too. By making such choices a site author is making the Internet worse for everyone.
I'm starting to think there should be some kind of "how not to be an ass on the Internet" course that would be mandatory before you're allowed to do business on-line.
Actually, weirdos are people making such pages. There is no valid reason for the content here to be not visible without JavaScript on. It's laziness and/or stupidity.
In Firefox, "View", "Page Style", "No Style". I assume other browsers let you do the same thing. This works for many pages that fail to render without JavaScript.
