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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://computerfairi.es/users/arielmt/statuses/110866762199772288">Ariel Millennium Thornton (arielmt@computerfairi.es)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 04:09:15 JST</a><a href="https://computerfairi.es/@arielmt" title="arielmt@computerfairi.es"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/159247-48-20230810190915.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Ariel Millennium Thornton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Ariel Millennium Thornton</a></section><article><p>The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1932236#notice-3793827">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-08-11T04:09:15+09:00" title="Friday, 11-Aug-2023 04:09:15 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://computerfairi.es/@arielmt/110866762199772288" rel="external" title="Sent from computerfairi.es via ActivityPub">computerfairi.es</a></span></span><a href="https://computerfairi.es/@arielmt/110866762199772288">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1391532">Weather.gov, the homepage of the US National Weather Service. There is a search box for accessing a local weather forecast in the upper-left corner of the page. In this screenshot, I have the city filled in, "socorro, nm", and I'm about to click on the "Go" button.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/697/518/339/395/original/c5d233fd870e29a5.png" rel="external">https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/697/518/339/395/original/c5d233fd870e29a5.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1391533">After clicking "Go" to access a local forecast, a completely blank page is all that loads because I have JavaScript blocked.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/698/867/390/038/original/ce25532c6cea8d7d.png" rel="external">https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/698/867/390/038/original/ce25532c6cea8d7d.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1391534">The HTML source code of the blank page, incomplete, improper, and short enough to include in this description box. The lone scrap of meat in this computationally greasy fat is "window.location.href='https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=NMZ220&amp;zflg=1'", a command to do slowly in JavaScript what the &lt;A&gt; tag does rapidly in HTML: Go to another page.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/699/879/585/330/original/e3065d60d0ae877c.png" rel="external">https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/699/879/585/330/original/e3065d60d0ae877c.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1391535">The page that apparently needs so much JavaScript to load, still loads mostly fine and completely serviceable in a fast Web browser. However, the quick outlook represented by weather event icons is gone, and the detailed forecast is no longer tailored for the city. (They're also missing/changed with JavaScript enabled, because the target page is for a large zone now, not a specific GPS coordinate.)</a></label><br><a href="https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/700/987/412/497/original/4a40c4b1de8a0b02.png" rel="external">https://media.computerfairi.es/media_attachments/files/110/866/700/987/412/497/original/4a40c4b1de8a0b02.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Ariel Millennium Thornton (arielmt@computerfairi.es)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 04:09:15 JST Ariel Millennium Thornton
The National Weather Service, one of the few parts of the United States Government that does genuine good and nothing else, now has a website that is functionally inaccessible without a JavaScript-contaminated "Web" browser.
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