When viewing a post with styles off, the comment headers are shown twice. Example:
badger22 April 2009 05:14:21PM 2 points [+] (0 children)badger22 April 2009 05:14:21PM 2 points [-]
Also, you’ll notice a lot of cruft at the bottom of the page, that is presumably hidden by styles.
There is lots of content that is managed with styles to allow the dynamic aspects of the site. CSS is a required browser feature of the site.
Surely this is not strictly necessary, and against the principles of progressive enhancement? What about accessibility issues?
The behaviour was all inherited from the initial Reddit codebase. It just isn’t feasible to rip out and re-implement all the javascript dependant parts of the site that are already there and working.
When viewing a post with styles off, the comment headers are shown twice. Example:
badger22 April 2009 05:14:21PM 2 points [+] (0 children)
badger22 April 2009 05:14:21PM 2 points [-]
Also, you’ll notice a lot of cruft at the bottom of the page, that is presumably hidden by styles.
There is lots of content that is managed with styles to allow the dynamic aspects of the site. CSS is a required browser feature of the site.
Surely this is not strictly necessary, and against the principles of progressive enhancement? What about accessibility issues?
The behaviour was all inherited from the initial Reddit codebase. It just isn’t feasible to rip out and re-implement all the javascript dependant parts of the site that are already there and working.