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timw4mail | karma 1377 | avg karma 2.1 · 2022-06-20 08:29:24

Unfortunately that kind of (now) obscure platform is unlikely to get great support from web browsers in general.

sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · 2022-06-20 10:56:09

This is really basic functionality though. It could gracefully degrade to an HTML form.

babypuncher | karma 4494 | avg karma 2.72 · 2022-06-20 13:36:25

It could, but it is a bit of a stretch for your average web developer to

1: Know that webassembly does not work on the PPC version of Firefox.

2: Have access to a PPC machine for testing in 2022.

It is an unfortunate but exceptionally rare edge case that few websites will ever actually encounter.

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watersb | karma 2171 | avg karma 1.74 · 2022-06-20 15:03:52

I disagree. Bog-standard functionality like a login form on a web based service should at the very least have a version that uses HTML.

(I wrote a web app in 1998, pushed the team to adopt shiny new HTML 4.0 and Java, but all the front end was data validation that was replicated on the back end anyway. In retrospect it was a lousy way to develop the system - I started with fancy and worked my way down, ass backwards that blew the dev budget - but at least the damn thing had a layer of fail-safe server that worked (handled errors and notifications) no matter what you threw at it.)

I'm writing this on an ancient iPad with JavaScript disabled. This is a text site. It works.

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babypuncher | karma 4494 | avg karma 2.72 · 2022-06-20 15:55:05

If you are building an app that requires Javascript in order to do what the customer wants, then having the login form also use Javascript does not seem like a problem to me. Building an HTML-only fallback that successfully logs the user in but takes them to a page that does nothing without Javascript seems like a waste of resources.

woojoo666 | karma 1215 | avg karma 1.72 · 2022-06-20 16:27:43

Tons of websites don't have html fallbacks for the small userbase that disables javascript. You'd be hard pressed to convince them to support html fallbacks for what I assume is an even smaller userbase (PowerPC)

AlbertoGP | karma 1946 | avg karma 3.56 · 2022-06-21 15:13:42

Please note that Javascript works well (no JIT but fine otherwise) in Firefox on PowerPC 64, things like ProtonMail, GMail, YouTube, diverse online maps etc. work fine, even WebGL (Shadertoy, Three.js etc.). It’s just WebAssembly which doesn’t.