November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
5h 49m
English
“The Web is the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable.”
—DOUGLAS CROCKFORD
In February 2011, shortly after Gawker Media launched a unified redesign of its various properties (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jezebel, etc.), users visiting those sites were greeted by a blank stare (Figure 5.1). Not a single one displayed any content. What happened? JavaScript happened. Or, more accurately, JavaScript didn’t happen.1

Figure 5.1 Lifehacker during the JavaScript incident of 2011.
In architecting its new platform, Gawker Media had embraced JavaScript as the delivery mechanism ...