Thank you. At first, I didn't see anything of interest and briefly wondered why I was at a site that had nothing to do with the HN subject.
It hit me that the submission was to a demonstration rather than an article, so I temporarily instructed Noscript to allow all domains used by the page. Sure enough, now the banner appeared.
But that speaks to another reason to not use too many scripts hosted by third-parties. It makes for a very cluttered list of domains for users of Noscript and similar to authorize. I just leave sites that have more than a small number. How many third-party analytics, tracking, tools, social sharing, voting, polling, comments, shopping, deals, and other tools do you really need to embed to make a web site these days?
I love when the list is just domain.foo and domain-static.foo and maybe google-analytics or another mainstream analytics domain.
Don't forget that sometimes you need to allow the site's CDN domain as well.
The problem with Noscript is that it doesn't seem to differentiate between allowing a domain when it's actually a site you're visiting (say, facebook.com) and when it's a domain that a completely different site is trying to load content from. A straight whitelist is too "dumb" for today's web.
google analytics is a definitive no-no. permabanned here and one of the reasons I run noscript and its kind in my browsers.
Not that I mind webmasters running analytics tools, but I'm concerned with google having access to too much personal data/metadata, those privacy issues are bad.
It hit me that the submission was to a demonstration rather than an article, so I temporarily instructed Noscript to allow all domains used by the page. Sure enough, now the banner appeared.
But that speaks to another reason to not use too many scripts hosted by third-parties. It makes for a very cluttered list of domains for users of Noscript and similar to authorize. I just leave sites that have more than a small number. How many third-party analytics, tracking, tools, social sharing, voting, polling, comments, shopping, deals, and other tools do you really need to embed to make a web site these days?
I love when the list is just domain.foo and domain-static.foo and maybe google-analytics or another mainstream analytics domain.